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Real vs Tech, The Gadget Show  Channel 5, 7 November 2011
Jason and Ortis see if they can tell the difference between the most cutting edge tech, including Cleverbot, and the real world.

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.com exceeds 3.75 million visits a month  August 2011
Cleverbot excels at engaging users, who stay talking on average for 15 minutes. Many claim that it must be human, meaning that Cleverbot regularly passes a 'chat' Turing Test. We exceeded 2.5 million visits per month in April.

CGI vs Android, The Gadget Show  Channel 5, March 2011
Cleverbot becomes TV presenter JasonBot in this entertaining challenge, in the rather alien circumstances of voice-based conversation in studio!

Cleverbot for Android  March 2011
The Cleverbot app launches on the Android Market.

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!

Cleverbot for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad  June 2010
The Cleverbot app launches for iOS devices, and by March 2011 exceeds 80,000 purchases.

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.

Call and Response  The Economist, March 2007
Call centres are one of the bugbears of modern life. Could a dose of software make the experience of dealing with one less painful? Researchers working on conversational software programs, or chatbots, certainly hope so. They aim to supplement and even replace human operators with software that can understand ordinary conversational language, and thus deal with calls more efficiently.

Chat program scoops the prize for being almost human  September 2006
Her name is Joan; she is just a few years old and very talkative... and now she is officially the world's most human computer program.

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.