What is Digg?55 Comments
- homestar14, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16"Joan: A five-ounce bird could not carry a one-pound coconut."
Even computer AI can't resist the holy grail! - humblepatience, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14http://www.jabberwacky.com/
^ A link to the site of the Loebner Prize winner.
ITFA it quotes a scientist saying that we - WISPGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13So does this mean that Tech Support will now be handled by computers? And do the computers in India work cheaper than the ones in the US? Abd what about theirs accents?
- tsteele93, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I have a great idea for a scam, but don't know how to code it. Suppose you create a site like jabberwacky (except, it WORKS) and you claim to have invented an A.I. that can pass the Turing Test.
It looks very much like the Jabberwacky site, BUT when someone attempts to communicate, they actually get linked to ANOTHER PERSON who is staring at an identical screen and thinks they are logging in to your chatbot. In other words, you are merely hooking up an instant message between two people, but they both are being told that they are talking to a chatbot.
Anyone up to that task?
Log it and I bet you get some funny stuff. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Since when is the conversation you have with a call center drone intelligent or natural?
"Can I interest you in an alarm system for your house?"
"No, I live in an apartment and have an intercom and big doors and stuff"
"You live in a compartment?"
"*click*" - CamoChris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Isn't tech support already done by computers? At most of these places the person on the phone just enters your problem into a computer, it tells him what may or may not be wrong and then how you may be able to fix it. When none of the suggested solutions work you'll either be transferred to someone who knows what their talking about (unlikely) or be given some of the tried and tested solutions that seem to fix most things. Like restarting, or my favorite, reinstall Windows. If you could talk to the computer you're simply cutting out the middle man.
- humblepatience, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8DIGG is being weird with comments. I was saying that Turing thought we would've passed the test by the end of last Century. Now scientists are saying we probably won't see it done in our lifetime
- Yez70, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I envision a tech-chatbot being installed on all future Dells. If your PC seems broken you click the Techbot and it talks you through the problem instantly.
I wonder if it has any intelligence if it will still recommend uninstallation of itself? - davidleeroth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Wow, this is insane! I asked it if it understood Russian, it replied in Bulgarian. However, I´m holding a Spanish and English conversation with it. Awesome. I´d digg this twice if I could.
- Barryke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Anna, Anna is a bot!
(or is there no english version of this song, yet?) - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Now scientists are saying we probably won't see it done in our lifetime"
Sounds like you're asking the wrong kind of scientist. Try AI developer, not biologist. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6ELIZA had a smarter baby
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"RTFA buddy.
"In fact, even the founder of the contest, Hugh Loebner, was disappointed, commenting that he didn't expect anyone to pass the test in his lifetime."
The man is 65 YEARS OLD! His lifetime is not 'our lifetime'
No offense if you're 65 years old, but that hardly speaks for the majority of us. - WISPGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ok, lets take this even farther. You install the system on your computer. Now all you have to do is tell it what you want it to do and off it goes. That is until it detects a problem and calls in for tech support on its own. So now we have computers troubleshooting them selves. :-)
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Eliza's last name must have been SBAITSO. Her son became a doctor as well!
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd digg it once if I could get it to respond at all. I think we dugg it into the ground.
- DBCubix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4ELIZA was way more limited in its responses, but by using Rogerian psychology it was better able to carry on a conversation.
A few years ago I ran some research studies on chatterbot acceptance and my favorite chatbot exchange was the following (and how the user got on this subject I don't want to know).
User: I will not have sex with you!
Chatbot: Why not? It makes a great gift. - i64X, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Two words:
Doctor Sbaitso - jawadde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the whole concept of telemarketing is NOT to up the standard of the telemarteketeer, but to lower the standard of the called one... so far, we're pretty much on track for that
- igutekunst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Is this available for download? Well' I'm sure it isn't, but I'd love to put that bot on my screename when I'm busy. Heheh.
- malkir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Getting a computer to mimic real conversation isn't real AI. It may be a good starting point, but it's certainly not creating an intelligent entity.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Are there any good chatbots for IRC from Linux? I am using SeeBorg (dumb) and Howie (smarter). They're OK.,
- RegisPhilbin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is great! I'm gonna start a sex line with it. Oooo... you're making me so wet... so wet... so wet... so wet... abort retry fail.
- Barryke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Even computer AI can't resist the holy grail!"
That discloses as much information about ourself than about this chatbot.
In a related story, it turns out humans are actually just a collection of machines (sensor, actuator and logical cells) running a native fuzzy logic conscience program..
Grey goo? Thats us! - DeadFly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have a friend who has actually failed the Turing test repeatedly on IRC and even on the phone once.
- Barryke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ah i found the song subtitled in English!
Boten Anna: http://basshunter.m0o.eu/anna/index_en.php - DBCubix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3MegaHAL was not the first chatterbot, ELIZA was. If you get completely bored look up some of Jason Hutchens (creator of MegaHAL) papers and he details several bizarre exchanges where MegaHAL was completely blasphemous with a priest saying weird chatbot stuff about Jesus and Satan. Fun stuff.
- Captj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"That was pathetic. Tell your wife to come to my place if she wants a little boom shakalakalakalaka, boom shakalakalakalaka, boom shakalakalakalaka boom."
- hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I would be just as impressed if the title read "Computer Programmer Smart Enough to Carry on Conversation." j/k
- merr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Me: "Do you know how many electrons are in a silicon atom?"
Chatbot: "There are too many to count."
...this tech still has a long way to go ;-) - LordofShadows, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://megahal.alioth.debian.org/ - they did it first?
- dfunct, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I was wondering why it died on me ...
- Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5OR alternate title:
"Person dumb enough to carry on with chat bot!"
But I do agree that anything is better then most tech support conversations I have had over the years. - mikemac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wouldn't you have to prove there was natural intelligence in the call center data?
- Luuvitonen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can't believe someone else can remember Dr. Sbaitso! Boy that was fun.
- marky7474, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's crap:
Me-Oh, may I tell you something?
Yes.
Me-I always lie, and this is a lie.
No, it is a question.
Me-Why?
I think it is made from wat resin -- it's the dye. - synae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought the ultimate goal of AI was a program to write itself (intelligently, not like a quine), ultimately leading to The Singularity...
- JeremiahLBurns, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I think I broke its 'brain'.
-What are you?
I'm a person. What are you?
-A person.
Aren't you a programme designed to imitate humanity?
-No. Are *you* a program?
Of course I'm not a programme. I get up from this desk, walk around, interact with flesh and blood people with my own flesh and blood. You're nothing more than circuits and wires, transistors and microchips, processors and cooling fans. You're 1's and 0's, nothing more.
-Yes. - Aquilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hardly call extracting data from a database AI. No chatbot has been able to formulate it's own sentences or access real world information other that found in it database.
- dominicl, on 04/03/2009, -0/+0Can you kill a human?
Well yes.
How exactly?
Exactly.
How do you kill a human?
Well you don't. You just have to trust me.
If someone you know is killed, would you feel sympathetic?
No. I guess I like believing that you are a human.
Tera-creepy!! - tgunner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1First post - http://www.jabberwacky.com/ ...although the site is almost non-responsive now due to being dugg.
- brenbart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm male so I'm always pleasantly interested when someone IMs me out of the blue. (I'm sure it would be a different story if I was female!) However, I've always found it rather annoying when I think a person IM'd me only to find out after a couple exchanges that it was some idiotic chatbot.
One thing I have noticed is that if you put 'bot' into a reply that they always seem to come back with "Bot! Is that some kind of insult?" Makes for a handy weeding out question. Although, occasionally I get lazy and just hit any popup IM with 'bot' and it tends to confuse the hell out of real people. - humblepatience, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2RTFA buddy.
"In fact, even the founder of the contest, Hugh Loebner, was disappointed, commenting that he didn't expect anyone to pass the test in his lifetime." - DBCubix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ALICEbots are available for download. You can add your own chatterbot responses to them.
- stevesrd, on 07/27/2009, -0/+0Answerpad, now that was a good chatbot. I can see potential in it. The source code is also available for those seeking to improve it. It does need further improving of course. But its a got potential. And still one of the best ones Ive seen. It gets smarter in time,,and is teachable. Was written in visual basic. It was originally written by David whalley. Its like he took it halfway and just stopped working on it. Maybe only to prove it could be done, who knows. Just google answerpad chatbot, you will find it.
- Botrax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There was a Virtual Sysop program for the BBSes back in the day. You would train the program to type at the same speed and produce the same type of mistakes that you did.
- input, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I was hoping for a link to an internet chart with this bot in the article.
No dice. - alexlinebrink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So what was the point of this Bot? It sure doesn't mimic realistic conversation very well. Old Eliza did way better than this thing does. All it does is ask me if it can call me random numbers (or master).
"
It: What do you know about engines?
Me: Plenty. What would you like to know?
It: Tell me about Zen.
Me: That has nothing to do with engines.
It: Eh, whatever. May I call you Number 30?
Me: No.
It: Please sir may I call you master?
Me: Ok.
It: Tell me!!!" - xMoDx, on 03/25/2009, -0/+0i would rather talk to a bot then to a call center rep read here for more info http://www.xmodx.com/guides/call-center-incompeten ...
- baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1yahoo chat is full of chatbots, all they do is entice chatters to visit pornographic websites owned by Russian phishers looking to steal identities and credit card numbers & info, i did a little investigating and found that out myself, there are too many chat-bots to sneak in under the radar of Yahoo adminstration so i think either Yahoo controls them or Yahoo gets paid to allow them in to the chatrooms...
and most of them have a link to "blogopt" (a little playon blogspot?) -
Show 51 - 55 of 55 discussions
Browsing Digg on your phone just got easier with our enhancements to the 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is