{{Short description|British artificial intelligence researcher}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2011}}{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}{{Infobox person | name = Rollo Carpenter | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1965}} | known_for = Artificial intelligence development | family = Merlin Carpenter }} '''Rollo Carpenter''' (born 1965) is the British-born creator of Jabberwacky and Cleverbot, learning artificial intelligence (AI) software.<ref name="Halpern2007">{{cite book|last=Halpern|first=Paul|title=What's science ever done for us?: what The Simpsons can teach us about physics, robots, life and the universe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4yXhRxHApuwC&pg=PA93|year=2007|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|isbn=978-0-470-11460-5|page=93}}</ref> Carpenter worked as CTO of a business software startup in Silicon Valley.
== Cleverbot == In 2011, Cleverbot, a learning AI conversationalist, took part alongside humans in a formal Turing test at the Techniche 2011 festival at IIT Guwahati, India, on 3 September. The results from 1,334 votes were announced 4 September 2011. Cleverbot was judged to be 59.3% human, far exceeding expectations. The humans in the event achieved just 63.3%.<ref name="BBC_Stephen-Hawking-warns">{{cite web |title = Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind |url = https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540 |publisher = BBC News |last = Cellan-Jones |first = Rory |date = 2 December 2014 |accessdate = 15 December 2016 |url-status = live |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20161216180753/http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540 |archivedate = 16 December 2016}}</ref>
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== External links == *[https://www.cleverbot.com/ cleverbot.com] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050411014336/http://jabberwacky.com/ jabberwacky.com] *[http://science.discovery.com/videos/popscis-future-of-cleverbot.html PopSci clip of Cleverbot]
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