Panu Horsmalahti wrote:
2007/12/9, Stefan Pernar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
Ironic yet thought provoking:
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/12/slutbot_passes.php
<http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/12/slutbot_passes.php>
This is not the Turing Test, since the subjects are not aware that
they're talking with a bot. This type of test has been done multiple
times in the past with simple chat bots.
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I'm not sure. It wasn't a Turing Test before the news story broke, but
is it one now?
Mind you, if it is, I think that that's more a proof that much of human
behavior isn't particularly intelligent than a proof that the chat-bot
is, itself, intelligent. Turing proposed his test as a way of defusing
the skeptics, not as a serious test. If he'd been serious he'd have
been much more careful, but he was well aware that any such test being
passed was far in the future, so he wasn't all that careful or precise.
The Turing test is important primarily because it catches the eye, and
removes "intelligence" from the mystical to the realm of the possibly
testable.
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