Turing tests

[pmb]

When people aren't trying to screen out people vs. non-people, then we have many many instances of computers successfully passing themselves off as people and having long conversations with unwitting strangers who never caught on. If I told you that a particular AIM account was actually a perl script designed to pass the Turing test, and, when you initiated a chat with that account it said "No, man. That's just one of my friends playing a trick on me - I'm totally real, and that's totally a hoax", how could it convince you of its humanity without resorting to out-of-band methods "call me on the phone" or "check out my webpage"?

If you can't think of a method, then I submit that computers have already passed the Turing test.

Comments

[pmb.livejournal.com]

Put more succinctly, we've moved from "on the internet nobody knows if you are a dog" to "on the internet nobody CARES if you are a dog".

Whoah.

[amoken.livejournal.com]

Whoah.

Hey, now, I'm not a horse! I promise!

[mrsmalkav.livejournal.com]

at peoplelink, when i worked customer service, i'd get random "a/s/l? wanna cyber?" messages. one day, i decided to pipe the eliza bot that we had into the conversation.

the guy got more and more aggravated, but he never questioned her being a real person.

"do you like choclit?" We were discussing you, not me. What made you think of that?
"do you like it all over your body?" Oh yes... like it all over my body!

AWESOME

[pmb.livejournal.com]

THAT IS THE KIND OF RESEARCH THAT OUR DISCIPLINE NEEDS SOOOOOO BAD