There have been numerous press articles about the conversation between two AI chatbots that has been set up by Igor Labutov at Cornell Creative Machines Lab.  It connects two instances of the online chatbot Cleverbot.

The experiment of putting two chatbots up against each other is interesting, but I am hugely disappointed by the resultant conversation and the underlying algorithms that are revealed by the conversation.  If this is AI – then it is using a very weak interpretation of the word artificial.  While it may cause some amusement, I can’t help but feel that claiming these types of algorithms to be AI does an injustice to the ideals of machine intelligence.

You can see the press release and video here: http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/AI-vs-AI

Or browse some other interesting work done at Cornell Creative Machines Lab: http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/

James.