From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 10 2003 - 00:04:31 MST
Spike66 wrote:
> Some of those conversations were so hilarious. Teen
> girls would say to the machine "...you are such a
> good listener, we should meet offline..." etc. I
> thought I was going to wet my diapers.
It would be even funnier to learn that the teen girl was actually one of
those undercover investigators trying to set up a sting operation to
bust online pedophiles. :)
By the way I read an article a few months ago (somewhere) about the best
online chatbot in existence. It's the brainchild of some eccentric guy
with mental illness who programmed literally tens of thousands of
sentences into his program to allow it to reply to the real questions
and statements from the real people who have interacted with it online.
He just keeps looking at the inputs from real people and programming in
new answers to those statements and questions he hasn't seen or
programmed in the past. The bot works entirely by rote, with no high
level processing whatsoever. The program has won numerous AI awards for
its performance in the turing test, which is something of a slap in the
face to most AI enthusiasts. In essence it is merely a very large data
collection of typical real world communications, not much more
sophisticated than an ordinary dictionary. Perhaps you or someone here
knows about the program and can offer up some URL's. (I'm going only
from memory here. I don't follow developments in AI as well as I
should.)
-gts
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