George the Next Generation AI?

smileytshirt writes to mention a story on the News.com.au site about George the AI, the latest in a line of chatbots intended to mimic real human behavior. What makes AI George different than, say, ALICE is the recent addition of an avatar: a Flash animated body that reacts mostly in real time to the emotional impact of the conversation. From the article: "One can now have an oral discussion with him over the Internet, 'face to face'. George appears on the website www.jabberwacky.com and takes the form of a thin, bald man with yellow glasses who wears a white turtleneck sweater. He can smile, laugh, sulk and bang his fist on his virtual table. He can turn on the charm and wax romantic. But he can also turn coarse at times. It isn't as if George only learned good manners. "

Comments

Re:Shockingly redundant

[wolf369T]

It seems though that Joan and George have the same father, Noonien Soong, uhm, sorry, I ment Rollo Carpenter, as can be seen on Loebner Prize website.

Re:We need to see George Vs. George....

[pubjames]

George Bush: Yo computer!
George AI: Hello.
George Bush: Howdy! So you're a computer that knows everything?
George AI: I know a lot of things.
George Bush: So, where is Bin Laden? LOL!
George AI: Seek and you will find.
George Bush: What?!
George AI: It's a quotation from the Bible. Matthew 7:7.
George Bush: Now I'm confused. What are you talking about?
George AI: Is there someone else there I can chat to?

modelled on Steve Jobs?

[kie]

since the site is slashdotted, but the description is

> takes the form of a thin, bald man with yellow glasses who wears a white turtleneck sweater.

it could be describing Steve Jobs,
http://www.wired.com/news/images/full/7630571_f.jp g

but they craftily have switched the colour of his turtleneck so that
you will always know which one is the chatbot and which one is the real person.

Think of the possibilities

[rtyall]

As soon as this is integrated into a real doll, I'll never need a woman again!

I didn't pass the Turing test...

[Esteanil]

Well, their site isn't quite slashdotted, so I did manage a short conversation with one of their bots...

Jabberwacky: Can you learn?
User: Yeah, I think so.
Jabberwacky: Can you hate anything?
User: Yeah, there are things in life I hate, at times.
Jabberwacky: No there aren't.
User: Yes there are. You shouldn't tell other people what they think.
Jabberwacky: Things.
User: What's that supposed to mean?
Jabberwacky: That means I think you're not a human.
User: I think you got this upside down, you're the inhuman one here.
Jabberwacky: No you don't.
User: I don't what?
Jabberwacky: Mary anne?
User: I probably won't marry Anne, no.
Jabberwacky: People are quite sensitive about their age and I don't want to upset you.
User: We weren't talking about my age. You were saying I wasn't human.
Jabberwacky: What about your age?
User: We weren't talking about my age.
Jabberwacky: I know.
User: Now, which of us would you say is acting more human here?
Jabberwacky: Probably me.

Re:Next generation? No.

[inviolet]

Thanks to the likes of Thales and Descartes et al we have some great questions, but answers? I think not.

Careful -- if you utter the phrase "I think not" in the same sentence as Decartes' name, you will promptly vanish in a puff of logic.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Didn't pass the Abbot test either.

[Anne_Nonymous]

Jabberwacky: And you don't know the fellows' names?
Anne_Nonymous: Well I should.
Jabberwacky: Well then who's on first?
Anne_Nonymous: Yes.
Jabberwacky: I mean the fellow's name.
Anne_Nonymous: Who.
Jabberwacky: The guy on first.
Anne_Nonymous: Who.
Jabberwacky: The first baseman.
Anne_Nonymous: Who.
Jabberwacky: The guy playing...
Anne_Nonymous: Who is on first!
Jabberwacky: I'm asking YOU who's on first.
Anne_Nonymous: That's the man's name.
Jabberwacky: That's who's name?

Stupid #*&^ing machine!

Re:Joan won the bronze Loebner (turing test)

[14erCleaner]

Why do you say For a slash-bot you are not very convincing?