Russian Chatbot Passes Turing Test (Sort of)

CurtMonash writes "According to Ina Fried, a chatbot is making the rounds that successfully emulates an easily-laid woman. As such, it dupes lonely Russian males into divulging personal and financial details at a rate of one every three minutes. All jokes aside — and a lot of them come quickly to mind — that sure sounds like the Turing Test to me. Of course, there are caveats. Reports of scary internet security threats are commonly overblown. There are some pretty obvious ways the chatbot could be designed to lessen its AI challenge by seeking to direct the conversation. And finally, while we are told the bot has fooled a few victims, we don't know its overall success rate at fooling the involuntary Turing "judges.""

Comments

All well and good...

[onion2k]

I'd rather have an easily-laid woman who can emulate a chat bot.

In fact, the chat bot side of things is wholly superfluous to what I want if I'm being honest.

In Soviet Russia

[the_skywise]

Chatbots screw you!

Re:In Soviet Russia

[Weirdbro]

But in America, you screw cha... wait, what?

Re:In Soviet Russia

[seanyboy]

I am interested in your Chatbots screw you. Do you want to see a photograph.

Obligatory Futurama reference

[neonux]

Russian guy: You're no easily-laid woman, you're a Fembot!
Fembot: It's true. I disguised myself as a easily-laid woman so I could rule the Russians.
Russian guy: But why?
Fembot: Why? Why? I came here from a faraway planet. A planet ruled by a chauvinistic Manputer that was really a Manbot. Have you any idea how it feels to be a Fembot living in a Manbot's Manputer's world?

Re:Old News...

[A beautiful mind]

What took you so long?

Re:WTF? This is not even a Turing test.

[weg]

Here's the definition according to the Hitchhiker's Guide:

A test for artificial intelligence suggested by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. The gist of it is that a computer can be considered intelligent when it can hold a sustained conversation with a computer scientist without him being able to distinguish that he is talking with a computer rather than a human being.

Some critics suggest this is unreasonably difficult since most human beings are incapable of holding a sustained conversation with a computer scientist.

After a moments thought they usually add that most computer scientists aren't capable of distinguishing humans from computers anyway.

Re:Jubii had such a robot

[evilviper]

Still, I'd be interested to see the code, and see how well it deals with non sequiturs.

I enjoy rhubarb.