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

Jubii had such a robot

[morten poulsen]

Jubii Chat had such a bot in 1999, collecting phone numbers from Danish boys, so this is not that new.

Getting financial details is probably new, but that was predictable.

WTF? This is not even a Turing test.

[TummyX]

The Turing test is pretty clearly defined. The tester has to know that they are talking to both a human and machine and the to pass the test the machine has to convince the tester that they are the human.