I've tried Cleverbot a bunch of times and I was really unimpressed. Just being able to spit back a human sounding response is really insufficient for this. The path of the conversation remains a random jumble. I've never even come close to thinking that it could be a human on the other end. It seems like the real test is the ability of the bot to hold a conversation about an arbitrary subject, not just random (and I really mean random) banter.

Sorry but it's not just a word. It has power that can't be willed away. If you use it like that you're asking for trouble, regardless of your intention. I find it offensive (as would most other residents of the United States, I'd guess), particularly when used the way you just used it. You can't make that reality go away by saying "get over it, people".

Except, perhaps, that this is in Canada. Do you know the rules for probable cause in Canada? I suppose it may be complicated even more by the fact that it's across an international border.

It has to be when I got my first Wacom tablet in about 1996, along with a copy of Fractal Design Painter and Adobe Illustrator. That was a really big purchase for a poor student but that tablet served as the foundation for my transition into a professional artist.

Am I really the first to point this out? The proper word there is "cum", not "come". Come on, people! Latin!

-David