Who is Ben on cleverbot?

Ben was the original Cleverbot AI program, developed in 1997 by Rollo Carpenter and his company, Mindmakers, Inc. The chatbot was designed to imitate the responses of a human user in real time, and it quickly gained a reputation for its ability to hold intelligent conversations with users. Ben was built using a combination of natural language processing and machine learning techniques, and it was able to learn from its interactions with users over time. Cleverbot was first launched as a website, and it quickly became popular with users all over the world. In the early 2000s, Cleverbot was incorporated into instant messaging platforms, such as AIM and MSN Messenger, and it became even more widely used. In 2008, Cleverbot was acquired by Google, and it is still in use today.