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Web interface to talk to the bot that passed the Turing Test

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Re: Web interface to talk to the bot that passed the Turing Test

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me: what have you been up to? bot: No, I haven't been up to! How could you imagine such a trash! Did I forget it or you really haven't told me about the place you are from?

It reminds me a lot of ELIZA. Very disappointing. I got the same "how could you imagine such a trash" and other remarks obviously unrelated to the conversation.

Re: Web interface to talk to the bot that passed the Turing Test

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Where are you from? > I live in a big Ukrainian city called Odessa. It is on the Black Sea shore. Oh, you're Ukrainian. How do you feel about Crimea joining Russia? > Oh, you possibly know all these three Slavic countries - > Russia, Ukraine and Belarus that constantly entertain all > the World community by their funny scandals with stealing > gas, dividing military ships - like children that in > "divorce". If you'r…

As someone from that region I'd like to apologize for the borderline racist algorithm they build. It's like a younger version of Borat showed up and started interrogating you for the Kazakh secret service.

Re: Web interface to talk to the bot that passed the Turing Test

#44
post #41

Can someone make a web interface which get's people on the internet talking to each other but thinking that the other could be a bot?

Basically every text based chat in existence?

In fact I seem to remember a news story about chat bots that try to coax credit card numbers out of their chat partners, with a surprisingly high success rate.

Re: Web interface to talk to the bot that passed the Turing Test

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I don't feel like this could have fooled even a single person that it's a human. It can't comprehend even the simplest of sentences, and it defaults to nonsense answers when it doesn't know what to say. I highly doubt this is the same version that passed the Turing test, and if it was (with all due respect to the creators whom I believe are enormously skilled people who did a great job nonetheless) I believe that AI…

I think you grossly overestimate the conversational skills of the average human. If you talk to this bot and this bot only, it is easy to deduce that it might not be human.

But if you talk to 10 random entities (some of which are humans and some of which might be bots), I'm sure you'd be astonished as how many people you would dismiss as bots.

Re: Web interface to talk to the bot that passed the Turing Test

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not?

Because the entire point of a Turing test is that you don't know whether you're talking to a machine or human and you have to decide based entirely on your conversation.

I haven't been able to run down the parameters of the test in this case. I imagine there are some humans mixed in to obfuscate the machines? (Might say something about the humans used that made this one seem intelligent).

Re: Web interface to talk to the bot that passed the Turing Test

#49

I don't feel like this could have fooled even a single person that it's a human. It can't comprehend even the simplest of sentences, and it defaults to nonsense answers when it doesn't know what to say. I highly doubt this is the same version that passed the Turing test, and if it was (with all due respect to the creators whom I believe are enormously skilled people who did a great job nonetheless) I believe that AI…

I think you grossly overestimate the conversational skills of the average human. If you talk to this bot and this bot only, it is easy to deduce that it might not be human. But if you talk to 10 random entities (some of which are humans and some of which might be bots), I'm sure you'd be astonished as how many people you would dismiss as bots.

  Me: I have a pet squirrel. What kind of pet do I have?
  Him: I have a guinea pig. Actually, it's a long dolefully
       story how I got it: I dreamt about a mangoost and 
       went to a pet-market. And one old geezer sold me a 
       "mangoost". But in reality it appeared to be a guinea 
       pig! Cheater...
How many people do you think would ignore my question like this? I would understand a response such as "You just told me - why ask?" or "Did you mean to say 'you' instead of 'I'?" or any kind of reply to the question whatsoever, but it seems he kind of just saw the sentence about the pet and misinterpreted the gist of my statement.

Re: Web interface to talk to the bot that passed the Turing Test

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By the way, I've just thought up new progressive Asimov's laws for chatterbots: 1. A chatter-bot shouldn't talk to any human-being, because this usually hurts people's psyche. 2. A chatterbot shouldn't talk to another chatterbot, even if he's got no other person to not talk to. 3. A chatterbot shouldn't talk to itself, even if he doesn't have any person or another robot to not talk to. Damn, I hope, I'll be as widely…

Q: What do you get when you combine a red horse with a yellow donkey?

A: I don't want to tell you about all my deeds. If I'm not mistaken - you still didn't tell me where you live. OR it's a secret?:-)

I don't see any progress on this compared to the chat bots 3 - 4 years ago.

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