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Dartful Dodger:
Question:
What was the name of the Republicans' president and vice president running against Jimmy Carter?
Answer:
Who cares?
By the time the kid is walking no one will give her name a second thought.
RayB:
Hello, my name is Eliza. How are you today?
ChadTower:
I remember as an AI class project writing a bot that would sit in a MOO room and chat with other users. It was a real user in all respects except that it didn't have a human behind it. IIRC it was perl based and used telnet to log in and wait for people to address it directly... if there was conversation going on, it would ask a general question, and wait for direct responses to it. It would then say generic stuff like "tell me more about <direct object from precious statement>" and a few other things to get people to talk about themselves. Not only did it fool a lot of people but a few of them actually considered themselves good friends of it because they needed so badly to talk to someone. I pulled the plug on it after a while because I was afraid a couple of people were going to get really hurt if they found out it wasn't a real person. It was amazing how little it took to fool some people and how badly some of them just needed someone to be interested in their life.
patrickl:
Indeed I have used Eliza a few times here too and had some debate that way with people. They assumed a human was talking to them so that makes it a lot easier to fool them. After a while they did begin to wonder if I was sane though.
In the Turing test, people know that one is a computer and one a real person. That makes it a lot harder.
To be honest I'd say that Elbot would (should) fail a Turing test pretty fast. It's a lot better than Eliza, but it's answers are way too long and formal. Maybe they had a better version at the contest.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 16, 2008, 08:53:50 am --- Not only did it fool a lot of people but a few of them actually considered themselves good friends of it because they needed so badly to talk to someone. I pulled the plug on it after a while because I was afraid a couple of people were going to get really hurt if they found out it wasn't a real person. It was amazing how little it took to fool some people and how badly some of them just needed someone to be interested in their life.
--- End quote ---
Too true, it doesn't take much to fool some people. I used to run a Half-Life server and I usually played such odd hours that the only other people that were awake were half way around the world with ---smurfy--- lag or insomniacs. So I installed a couple of bot plugins to play against when I was online by myself. I spent a few months refining the gaming A.I. and Turing aspects. It wasn't long before the bots turned into wicked opponents prone to "cheating" within the game environment (the bots had a habit of jumping >:D ) equipped with a every insult I could think of, record, or find. I even worked in responses whenever people brought up the issue of bots. One day I decided to leave the bots activated during peak hours. When I glanced over the logs, the conversations that went on were downright hilarious. Accusations flew between every player (including bots). :laugh2: :laugh2:
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