can anyone explain , what IS cleverbot ?

Cleverbot is an AI web

application that learns how to

mimic human conversations by

communicating with humans. It

was created by AI veteran Rollo

Carpenter, who also created

Jabberwacky, a similar web

application. In the first decade of

its existence after being created

in 1988, Cleverbot held several

thousand conversations with

Carpenter and his associates.

Since being launched on the web

in 1997, the number of

conversations has exceeded 65

million.

Cleverbot differs from traditional

chatterbots in that the user is

not holding a conversation with

a bot that directly responds to

entered text. Instead, when the

user enters text, the algorithm

selects previously entered

phrases from its database of

prior conversations.

Cleverbot is an AI engine.