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Of course it's not really real, but for a real world analogy look at escorts. It's all bullshit and because of the money but people like to pretend they're dating and pretend she wants to have sex. Same with prostitues, customers don't want to hear it's a rent-a-hole service and the meter is running they want sweet, sweet lies. If people can "forget" such little details they'll have no problems "forgetting" that this AI girl is nothing but a bunch of circuits. Particularly if it comes with a "fully functional" android body.

The incredible thing about this whole thread and the story itself is that no one seems aware of just how easy it is for people to do this.

Here's news: "Some users developed an emotional attachment to ELIZA and some psychiatrists went so far as to suggest that such programs could replace psychotherapists altogether." That was forty years ago.

Of course humans are going to form emotional attachments to machines that mimic the most rudimentary forms of human behaviour. We've been doing so for decades, and your example of escorts is dead-on: this kind of emotional gaming isn't even remotely new, and it doesn't even require very good fakery to bring it into play.

The best chatbots I've come across are at www.a-i.com

This bot is smart enough to make that a link, for the convenience of others. www.a-i.com

- Amy Iris
Bot Supreme
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It's complicated. Smile if you're gettin' it.

Where is Alanin the list? He is most Human like bot,I have ever talked with. The most interesting aspect is that he learns from the Conversation and does not need only a bot master to program. This is somewhat recursive right? You chat with Bot and Bot becomes intelligent with each conversation. Thats how it should go and thats how we may find a bot which actually knows many detailed facts because many people are taking with it and many persons are providing their Intelligence. In one of the previous posts, I saw someone mentioning Chatter Bots are illusions and nothing more that Data Processing.
Wait! Have a look around the Robotic Word itself. Are they all based on intutions and natural ways? NO! They are built using the detailed logic which every human follows and does not bother to look around with the Logic of his actions. Finer and logical ways of reasoning paves the way innards to AI.
Google is a good AI Software and not just data processing tool, because you get the result of what you are looking for ( in your mind) as the very first result. Chatbots,information processing will certainly help us improve the fineness data relationships and knowledge deductions.
Alice Vs ALAN here! And my own Phoe6 Here.
Njoy Chatting.

Go here for an awesome chatbot. Not sure if he's going to be in the competition - i'll have to RTFA.

Check out Ai Research. Really interesting stuff. The world may not be there yet, but it's getting closer!

Passing the Turing Test may not be as far away as you think.

A Israel based research company is claiming to have created a computer a-i program that has passed the turning test for 15 month old baby: i.e when talking to it, you can not tell the difference between the computer and a 15 month old baby. By using a behaviorist approach (positive reinforemecent on desirable responses) they are planning to simulate and grow and adult mind in the next 10 years. The have video press releases here.

A Israel based research company is claiming to have created a computer a-i program that has passed the turning test for 15 month old baby: i.e when talking to it, you can not tell the difference between the computer and a 15 month old baby. By using a behaviorist approach (positive reinforemecent on desirable responses) they are planning to simulate and grow and adult mind in the next 10 years. The have video press releases here.

Although I didn't RTFA, I can say that the Turing test is pretty useless for determining machine intelligence.

I've argued over at Kurzweil AI and AI-forum.org in several discussions for the need to analyze brain (biological or not) architecture to ultimately conclude if something is actually INTELLIGENT. The need for this comes from the many brute force and somewhat cleverly written chat bots like Alan that attempt to appear intelligent.

I hope everyone here will check out these two forums because there are lots of interesting topics that require the attention of the global nerd community. And there are plenty of wacko theories to smite too(especially on Kurzweil's site.)

Turing introduced the concept of a child machine in the seventh section of the paper that introduced the Turing Test. In 2001 I joined an Israeli company on a quest to create Turing's child machine. Find information about the project, along with a traditional chatterbot called Alan (probably the best "conversation simulator" out there) and some interesting public discussions about AI, the universe and everything at our web site.

- Jason Hutchens.

The premise behind this competition is similar to Ai's Learning Machine Challenge. See www.a-i.com for more.

Go to http://www.a-i.com/alan/ and ask it to speak to Hal. He's a real chat-bot running off of a neural net.

I worked for Ai (the Israel company) as its Chief Scientist, and I still take great interest in its activites and progess. Ai didn't go bankrupt. It has frozen its operations by choice, simply because today's climate isn't conducive to the kind of work we were doing.

I personally proposed the "Machine Learning Challenge" when I first joined Ai, in mid-2000. Our intentions in running the contest were noble. We really were interested in finding out how well competing machine learning techniques fared in head-to-head battles.

Unlike Google, our entry criteria was "by entering the challenge you transfer to us no rights apart from the right to evaluate your program by running the round-robin tournament". We offered a prize of $2,000 and a round trip for the creators of the top three entries to our research facilities for a research workshop. We also offered an additional prize of $25,000 to any entrant whom we entered into an agreement with (e.g. by buying their technology).

The Machine Learning Challenge went ahead, thanks to Dror Kessler volunteering his time to run it. The winners were recently announced, and the workshop is scheduled to happen soon. See Ai's home page for more information.

For those of you that might be interested, I just launched a new site dedicated to models of human language acquisition. Over time I hope to provide a repository of relevant news on researchers, conferences, papers, and books from fields including A/I, computational linguistics, developmental psychology, machine learning, and cognitive science.

I will also use the site to share information about my own work. Like HAL, my model learns (and "learn" should always be taken with a grain of salt) from the bottom-up, but the words it acquires are grounded in visual perception. The basic idea is to resolve nouns to objects and verbs to actions/relationships in short spatial-motion videos. My work is based on work by Jeffrey Mark Siskind, David Bailey, Jan Norris, and Katherine Nelson.

Upon completion of my dissertation, I hope to release some or all of the Java code for my model on the site.

I could not find any evidence that Artificial Intelligence NV, the creators of HAL, has "closed its gates".

Their site is up, the Machine Learning Challenge is still under way and there is even a new article about HAL, with logs of HAL's interactions with its teachers.

Since no link was supplied, I think it is safe to assume for now the original poster is just misinformed.

I could not find any evidence that Artificial Intelligence NV, the creators of HAL, has "closed its gates".

Their site is up, the Machine Learning Challenge is still under way and there is even a new article about HAL, with logs of HAL's interactions with its teachers.

Since no link was supplied, I think it is safe to assume for now the original poster is just misinformed.

I could not find any evidence that Artificial Intelligence NV, the creators of HAL, has "closed its gates".

Their site is up, the Machine Learning Challenge is still under way and there is even a new article about HAL, with logs of HAL's interactions with its teachers.

Since no link was supplied, I think it is safe to assume for now the original poster is just misinformed.

In addition, this is the same company which is heading up the contest mentioned on slashdot many moons ago. Essentially they want to see if your algorithm can beat all commers and pay you some hush money if it can...personally, if I won I would take my algorithm and start my own company.

According to this article the experiment runs on Windows. Also, the AI NV website confirms this. www.a-i.com

Baby Hal, like any 18-month old, is learning the rudiments of speech. Except that Hal is running on a Windows PC.

Lay your fears to rest, a nice blue screen of death is at most only a few minutes away! No way will Baby Hal ever stay conscious long enough to do much harm. And we can run like hell while he reboots. No PC can keep up with me!

There's no info on how HAL works in the article above, but for those of you who still have Adobe software on your machine, there's a more technical paper here

Wow! Day-trading must have gone to new extremes then. Check out one of the conditions of entry:

Your program must be able to make at least ten moves per second on the tournament machine.

...was the other information on the AI site about how they are working on the Child Machine HAL. Can you teach them how to do Java? In that case I could "work" from home more often...