News & Press
Evie and Cleverbot pop up in the media quite often. Below are a selection of articles and other events. For PR related enquiries contact us.
How bots will change the Web, according to a bot we built to answer that question 15 April 2016
Washington Post article about chatbots, which is built around a Cleverscript bot.
Cleverbot Data for Machine Learning 22 January 2016
This article describes the Cleverbot data set and its suitability for machine learning purposes.
Machine Learning - Neural Networks Tutorial 20 August 2015
Existor is getting into machine learning! We wrote this tutorial along the way while adding neural networks to Evie and Cleverbot. We've also provided some code for a basic neural network and a look at the maths and code for RNNs and GRUs.
Boibot is live! 30 June 2015
We launched our male avatar Boibot, our first new avatar since Evie several years ago. Over 250 YouTube videos were created in the first week with a combined 4 million views!
Cleverbot App in Spanish 11 January 2015
Cleverbot the app is updated to include a Spanish interface.
Artificial Intelligence: BBC presenter talks to Cleverbot 4 December 2014
Rollo Carpenter, the inventor of Cleverbot and Evie live on BBC World News! to talk about artificial intelligence.
Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind ...and the BBC ask Rollo for his opinion! 4 December 2014
Rollo is asked for his view on the positive and negative potential of Artificial Intelligence.
Volkswagen launches innovative web chat 25 November 2014
Volkswagen's advertising campaign for electronic cars features the original actors from Star Trek chatting using our product Cleverscript.
Ghosts in the machine 14 October 2014
Guardian article about AI research for game characters, including Cleverbot.
26 Cleverbot Conversations That Are Guaranteed To Make You Laugh 27 February 2014
A BuzzFeed article with some very funny Cleverbot conversations.
Cleverbot in Parallel 5 February 2014
As of this week almost all Cleverbot's serving comes from parallel processing on graphics cards.
Cleverscript Hello World 26 March 2013
Existor had added 10 fully explained Hello World examples for the powerful Cleverscript AI engine.
Make Your Own Clever Bots with Cleverscript 4 March 2013
Existor Ltd has launched Cleverscript, a simple spreadsheet format and powerful AI engine for creating chatbots, virtual assistants and Non Player Characters. It even includes a small Cleverbot engine.
Cleverbot the Movie February 2013
A short film written by Cleverbot was released on YouTube. Also discussed on the Huffington Post website.
Skyfall Game AI October 2012
From October to December 2012, our AI powered the British Intelligence Officers Exam, a new game for Sony promoting and inspired by the film Skyfall.
Cleverbot takes the Turing Test September 2011
Cleverbot takes, and does extremely well, on the Turing Test at a computer festival in India.
Cleverbot chats to itself on YouTube August 2011
Two students cleverly record Cleverbot chatting to itself, and the video get over 2 million views in the first 2 weeks.
Cleverbot wins Machine Intelligence Prize 2010 Cambridge, 15th December 2010
Cleverbot won the BCS Machine Intelligence Competition 2010 after taking part in a quick-fire Turing Test. The audience voted on 'how human' 10 conversations seemed. Cleverbot was 42.1% human!
AI aims to solve in-game chatter BBC News, December 2009
"Chatbot" technology is being used in an attempt to solve one of "the last uncracked problems" in games design.
The Future of Communication Science Channel, October 2009
Interview with a Cleverbot avatar and Rollo Carpenter on AI and the future.
George, Joan and the Loebner Prize September 2005 and 2006
After having been in development for 16 years, by creator Rollo Carpenter, AI characters George and Joan have both received its first place in the Loebner Prize.
