Eerongal he/him Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 So apparently a chatbot has now passed a turing test. Granted, they said it was imitating a 13 year old boy, and if my experience with xbox live is typical, all they needed to do for THAT is to teach it to call me a noob and to yell colorful things about my mother. For those who don't know, a turing test is a test they put AI constructs against to determine if it is able to carry on a conversation (generally text conversations) in which it is difficult for a human to tell the difference between the AI or a fellow human. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasimir he/him Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 In part, it also depends on how much stock we're putting on Turing tests, doesn't it? My impression was that it's by no means a unanimous or uncriticised notion within the field: just a measure which has successfully captured the popular imagination. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellexe he/him Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 I for one welcome our new robotic overlords. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eerongal he/him Posted June 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 In part, it also depends on how much stock we're putting on Turing tests, doesn't it? My impression was that it's by no means a unanimous or uncriticised notion within the field: just a measure which has successfully captured the popular imagination. Right, but it's still a pretty significant accomplishment. It's worth noting that there's several different "versions" of a turing test as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurkistan he/him Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 Eh, just wake me up when it's recursively improving and fundamentally altering its own code. This is interesting, though. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardbearer he/him Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 Eh, just wake me up when it's recursively improving and fundamentally altering its own code. This is interesting, though. And spreading that code to other devices. Singularity, here we come. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eerongal he/him Posted June 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 Eh, just wake me up when it's recursively improving and fundamentally altering its own code. This is interesting, though. Yeah, it doesn't really mean much in the scheme of things right now. It's not like they actually created a thinking, living hard AI. Just means that they've gotten it to some particular level of confidence in responding to human conversations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left he/him Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 We should ask them to protect us from spambots.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two McMillion he/him Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 (edited) The Turing test is vastly overrated, and the number of idiots on the internet has effectively destroyed its usefulness, anyway. I mean, Cleverbot passes simply for the reason that there are plenty of people on the internet who would give replies as inane as it does. When we get beyond Chinese rooms (which is totally what this is), then we'll have something to talk about. Edited June 9, 2014 by Two McMillion 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightsworn Panda he/him Posted June 10, 2014 Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 Agreed, McMillion. The Turing Test is quite exaggerated in use. Cleverbot passed, I think, simply because you can get hilarious answers from it. It's also got the mood swings and memory of a unicorn on crack. Example: Me: What gender are you? CB: Female (Two questions later) Me: What gender are you? CB: I am a program. Eerongal, great to know someone also plays Xbox online . If it isn't too much, can you tell me your account name? Don't get me started on 12-year-old noobs and their surprisingly wide range of curses and knowledge of my relationships. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eerongal he/him Posted June 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 Eerongal, great to know someone also plays Xbox online . If it isn't too much, can you tell me your account name? Well, I haven't even started up my 360 in months, so I don't really play it THAT much. That said, my xbox live handle is the same as on here (Eerongal). I do play the occasional windows live game, though, but games for windows live is being discontinued soon anyways. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTolman he/him Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Yeah, it doesn't really mean much in the scheme of things right now. It's not like they actually created a thinking, living hard AI. Just means that they've gotten it to some particular level of confidence in responding to human conversations. Hey... This is Much beyond Many people in our own society... so perhaps this really is an achievment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ookla the Absent Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 I am not a computer. I am a unicorn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colours Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 (edited) The Turing test would work a great deal better if it was proposed after we had some AIs worth testing. I mean, I remember reading about one Turing test event thing where a bot was believed to be human by a fair number of the judges. It would bring up a recent news event and then spent the rest of the conversation directing you attention to various aspects of it and stating its own opinions on those aspects. The twist is, it used literally the exact same script each time. The makers decided on the day before the competition to submit this bot instead of the one they were really working on. It might have been a pretty good idea. Edited August 1, 2015 by Colours 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrike76 he/him Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Eh, just wake me up when it's recursively improving and fundamentally altering its own code. Yep. The Turing test is an interesting tool, but I've always felt that the Turing test better reflected human fallibility than AI potency. Certainly if a piece of code can consistently pass the TT, fooling an overwhelming % of a large group, that'll be something, but it still might not be AI. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickenPlague he/him Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 I for one welcome our new robotic overlords. Praise be to Sira the daughter of Siri! May she live among us and rule us! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormgate he/him Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 I think robot overlords would be the next step. Computer overlords are clearly the first stage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STINK he/him Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 This is quite the necro 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ookla the Absent Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 This is quite the necro Like, it's four months old? That's nothing compared to some of the necromancy I've done on here before. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth she/her Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 Like, it's four months old? That's nothing compared to some of the necromancy I've done on here before. First with the robot overlords, and now with the necromancy. Is this cyberpunk or fantasy? Pick a genre, people! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormgate he/him Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 No. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ookla the Absent Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 What's so mutually exclusive? Have you ever seen Dolls of New Albion? Well, technically that's steampunk/necromancy, but whatever. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kynedath Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 I'd just like to say that I worship the google gods devoutly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ookla the Absent Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 I'd just like to say that I worship the google gods devoutly. Well, at least you're not one of those heathen Bingists... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kynedath Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 "Father Chrome, I swear to observe the google doodles and always pursue the good fight, to search for the answers in every situation." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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