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

[bettsbaby.livejournal.com]

Being unfamiliar with this...have computers already started co-opting the "you know when you" kind of language? (i.e. You know when you go to the supermarket and there's a guy in the 10 items or less checkout line with 20 items? Don't you hate that?) The language that a lot of people use to try to make a connection between themselves and the person they are speaking with, instead of just speaking from their own experience. (i.e. When I go to the supermarket I hate it when there's someone in the 10 items or less checkout line with 20 items)

[pmb.livejournal.com]

Hrm. It depends on what you mean. Computers tend to talk like the people they are trained on, and rhetorical questions and other devices like that are seldom employed in online chat - they are probably too subtle.