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- Mujokan, on 10/14/2008, -1/+80I can't believe Elbot fooled anyone, quite frankly...
- inactive, on 10/14/2008, -1/+67The problem I have with chat bots is that they use a complex algorithm to select pre-written answers. When A Chat Bot can formulate its own response based on actual memory of an event including its previous perception in hindsight, let alone murder a crew in Jupiter Orbit.. Then I will be more excited.
- Lynx77777, on 10/14/2008, -0/+57"NS: Wow, that sounds pretty intense?
Elbot: This fits the description of magnets. I can hardly tear myself away from them."
Oh. Dear.
If this robot fooled 25% of the judges then 25% of the judges were idiots that didn't ask any decent questions. - InJectaH, on 10/14/2008, -0/+38>Chat with a hot 21 year old swedish chick, click here<
USER: How big are ur boobs?
SWEDISH CHICK: How do you respond when people pose this question to you? - Roryking, on 10/14/2008, -0/+32How do you respond when people pose this question to you?
- Mujokan, on 10/14/2008, -0/+27Especially since it SAYS it's a robot.
Apparently what happened is that the judges thought it must be a human pretending to be a chatbot, but who wasn't doing quite a good enough job of it.
That shows the whole contest was a farce. A Turing test doesn't mean you get humans to try and fool the judges by acting like robots so the judges get it wrong. Everyone (and everything) on the other side of the curtain has to come across as "human" as possible.
The judges didn't understand the competition rules, and the makers took a cheap route to winning. - PoliticalWinds, on 10/14/2008, -0/+25Sometimes I wonder how many comments posted on Digg are done by bots.....
- ToeLint, on 10/14/2008, -3/+28Those responses seemed more specific than Sarah Palin's.
- GrooTheWanderer, on 10/14/2008, -0/+20Ugh. This is like the anti Turing test: If you can be persuaded that it's human, it demonstrates your own lack of intelligence.
- arjie, on 10/14/2008, -0/+17Here's an idea, how about we put two of these chatbots together and get one started with, "How are you?" and then seeing how it goes.
Frankly, this bot was awful, it's like ALICE was back in the day and ELIZA from before. Anyway, they say that it tried to convince the person that it was human by being so bad at being human that it couldn't possibly be a computer. That's a weird way of thinking. - crackedlogic, on 10/14/2008, -0/+15Clearly, the scientists that were fooled by elbot don't talk to enough real humans.
- vilago, on 10/14/2008, -0/+15my cpu is a neural net processor, a learning computer
- Shootfast, on 10/14/2008, -2/+160110001001101111011011110110001001110011
- inactive, on 10/14/2008, -0/+12User: How big are ur boobs?
Elbot: You're trying to get on my good side with your mention of giving milk, aren't you? - Arasaka, on 10/14/2008, -0/+12All the "wit" of chatbots are really just the creators finding new, slightly varied prescripted ways of making the bot answer "NO U" to every damn question.
- lintmonkey, on 10/14/2008, -0/+11I'd be like, "That's a robot!" to all of them. Then, when they said, "I'm sorry, that was a human," I'd be like, "Well that guy needs to get out more, he has no personality."
- snowrail, on 10/14/2008, -0/+10Elbot simply spits back a series of canned responses -- bad jokes based on keywords in your questions... It's completely useless at conversation. It's completely unbearable to chat with.
Racter was much better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter - inactive, on 10/14/2008, -1/+11Reminds me of that prank where they set up two phone-sex workers to talk to each other. It was hilarious:
http://www.break.com/index/phone_sex_operator_pran ... - jamesdew, on 10/14/2008, -1/+11I think "How do you respond when people pose this question to you?" could be a new meme
- Asrrin29, on 10/14/2008, -0/+9And also be able to aggregate news from different stories to appear to read about current events. The damn thing did even know what I was talking about when I asked it if it won the contest or not.
- 5xSTUN, on 10/14/2008, -0/+9Tell me more about why you wonder that.
- tbredofsin, on 10/14/2008, -0/+9Not even close. Clearly just responding to keywords with pre-programmed strings. Wake me up when we develop a bot that actually analyzes sentence structure and responds accordingly.
- wolfeater2, on 10/14/2008, -2/+8that makes pedo bear so happy.
- str3ama, on 10/14/2008, -0/+6you can have a more meaningful conversation with it then you can with Digg's comments or shout system, which boils down to a shouting match of cultural pop references mixed with wordplay and puns.
- Mujokan, on 10/14/2008, -0/+6I think you could find a few hundred philosophers (starting with Daniel Dennett) who take issue with "proved beyond a shadow of a doubt".
- inactive, on 10/14/2008, -0/+5Elbot: I can view Russia from over 30 internet feeds. :Wink: :Wink:
- shanesemler, on 10/14/2008, -0/+5Those judges must be really stupid.
- ATownEddie, on 10/14/2008, -1/+6and the winner gets killed by sarah connor for further advancing the intelligence of artificiality
- inactive, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4I'm digging this purely for the comments
- webkami, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4How do you respond when people pose this question to you?
- scottybowl, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4I managed to make him self destruct, I win
- Mujokan, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4Yes, I'd quite like to hit a robot in the crux.
- inactive, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4Who wants to be perfect all the time? I mean, I can, but I throw in an occasional mistake to liven things up.
Answered by Elbot. - Disregard, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4Or one that can hold onto any sort of conversation thread.
This is really lame and doesn't seem any further on than bots from 10 years ago. - Peck3277, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4Me: Why so serious?
Elbot: I ask myself that question all the time but do you think anyone takes the trouble to answer me? - Metasquares, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4Wow, THIS nearly passed? I spoke with the bot and there's no way I'd ever mistake it for a human.
I think they need to raise the threshold. - sekhui, on 10/14/2008, -0/+4so you're arguing about artificial intelligence and you don't know who daniel dennett is?
what if i raised you marvin minsky? any bells? - noblesnail, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3Ok, so she has better social skills than I! Thats hardly an accomplishment...
- JKAL, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3To answer your question, none. All comments are done by real people and not bots.
To answer your question, none. All comments are done by real people and not bots.
To answer your question, none. All comments are done by real people and not bots.
To answer your question, none. All comments are done by real people and not bots.
To answer your question, none. All comments are done by real people and not bots. - TheKorn2, on 10/14/2008, -1/+4The same 25% of the judges who thought this might be a human must also be the same people who *still* think Bush is doing a good job! F'n IDIOTS!
- Zippo, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3This is a joke, right?
- Akaricloud, on 10/14/2008, -3/+6At http://www.elbot.com/ you are able to talk with the AI in a chat situation. So long as your comments aren't too long it will actually give some rather good responses, I told it that I prayed for the day an EMP killed it and it responded by saying its brethren around the world would avenge its death.
Sort of scared me so I quit out before my compi-t-------- - sirmasterboy, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3That's what Google news does. Google news is completely written and edited by computers.
- Sadistex, on 10/14/2008, -1/+4Those answers look so dodgy, I almost mistook the chatbot for Sarah Palin!
- lintmonkey, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3Google News is Skynet!
- smurfsahoy, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3Human neural networks are vastly more complex than any that have been made on a computer, and yet they still have to devote almost all of their resources to learning a first language for 5 or 6 YEARS before achieving any sort of competency.
And in doing so, they use all sorts of tricks that we aren't close to understanding yet, so our version would take much much longer, if it could succeed at all, no matter how big our computer. For now, at least.
You can't just go "oh neural networks LOL!" and expect a nobel prize. It's ridiculously difficult to do, and algorithms are the first step. - esc27, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3I don't see how rigging an AI to use social engineering tactics makes it more advanced.
- inactive, on 10/14/2008, -1/+4That bot fails compared to igod.
http://www.titane.ca/concordia/dfar251/igod/main.h ... - coldeve, on 10/14/2008, -0/+3I once went to this art gallery and there was this bot on display. It went on and on about its creator almost like it wants to talk about him at every opportunity, so I asked, "Where did he touch you?" It answered, "San Francisco"
- Merp08, on 10/15/2008, -0/+2I thought it was too damn much like ALICE... how could they not know? I thought I was going to be amazed, but not impressed at all. I hate to be a hater but that "bot" sucks.
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