Jabberwacky
Early chatbot by Rollo Carpenter (1997) that learned from human conversations, later evolving into Cleverbot.
2 milestones
Cleverbot Developed by Rollo Carpenter
Rollo Carpenter, a British AI developer, launched Cleverbot as a publicly accessible web application in 1997, extending his earlier Jabberwacky project. Cleverbot learned conversational responses directly from accumulated human inputs rather than from a hand-coded rule base, and went on to accumulate hundreds of millions of logged exchanges.
Jabberwacky Chatbot Developed by Rollo Carpenter
In 1988, British programmer Rollo Carpenter began developing Jabberwacky, a chatbot that simulated conversation by storing and retrieving lines from prior user exchanges rather than using fixed scripted responses, with the aim of exploring machine-based natural language interaction.