Jabberwacky

Jabberwacky is a chatterbot created by British programmer Rollo Carpenter. Its stated aim is to "simulate
natural human chat in an interesting, entertaining and humorous manner".[1] It is an early attempt at creating
an artificial intelligence through human interaction.

Purpose
The stated purpose of the project is to create an artificial intelligence that is capable of passing the Turing
Test. It is designed to mimic human interaction and to carry out conversations with users. It is not designed
to carry out any other functions.

Unlike more traditional AI programs, the learning technology is intended as a form of entertainment rather
than being used for computer support systems or corporate representation. Recent developments do allow a
more scripted, controlled approach to sit atop the general conversational AI, aiming to bring together the
best of both approaches, and usage in the fields of sales and marketing is underway.

The ultimate intention is that the program move from a text based system to be wholly voice operated—
learning directly from sound and other sensory inputs. Its creator believes that it can be incorporated into
objects around the home such as robots or talking pets, intending both to be useful and entertaining,
keeping people company.

Cleverbot
Cleverbot is the evolved version of the older Jabberwacky chatterbot, or chatbot, originally launched in
1997 on the web.[2] While Cleverbot.com continued to work in 2023, the Jabberwacky's website, tagged as
"legacy only," stopped working temporarily from December 31, 2022 until approximately June 1, 2023,
experienced a restoration for a little more than two weeks and then stopped working again.

Timeline
1981 – The first incarnation of this project is created as a program hard-coded on a Sinclair
ZX81.
1988 – Learning AI project founded as 'Thoughts'
1997 – Launched on the Internet as 'Jabberwacky'
October 2003 – Jabberwacky is awarded third place in the Loebner Prize. It was beaten by
Juergen Pirner's Jabberwock (A German-based chat program)
September 2004 – Jabberwacky is awarded second place in the Loebner Prize. It was
beaten by computer chat program A.L.I.C.E.
September 2005 – George, a character within Jabberwacky, wins the Loebner Prize
September 2006 – Joan, another Jabberwacky character, wins the Loebner Prize
October 2008 – A new variant of Jabberwacky is launched, more fuzzy and with deeper
context, under the name Cleverbot
January 2023 – The legacy website started displaying a 504 Gateway Time-out multiple
times with a redirect at least once to boibot.com on February 28, 2023. According to the
 Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, the site was last active and working on December 31,
2022. No media outlet covered the change or noted any press release about it.
June 2023 - the Jabberwacky site became accessible once more until it stopped working
again the week of June 18, 2023. As with the outage, no media outlet covered the changes
or noted any press release to explain the five-month down time, the restoration or the new
outage.

See also
Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity (ALICE)
Chatterbot
Loebner Prize

References
1. "About the Jabberwacky AI" (http://www.jabberwacky.com/j2about).
2. "No One's Talking About The Amazing Chatbot That Passed The Turing Test 3 Years Ago"
(https://www.businessinsider.in/No-Ones-Talking-About-The-Amazing-Chatbot-That-Passed
-The-Turing-Test-3-Years-Ago/articleshow/36452106.cms).

External links
www.jabberwacky.com (https://web.archive.org/web/20050411014336/http://jabberwacky.co
m/) The Official Website
Jabberwacky entry (http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/2005_Contest/Jabberwacky/Jabberwacky
_Judge_session1.htm) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20050930225103/http://loebne
r.net/Prizef/2005_Contest/Jabberwacky/Jabberwacky_Judge_session1.htm) 30 September
2005 at the Wayback Machine to the Loebner Prize 2005

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