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.""

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I would call this "coprocessor AI"

[iamacat]

It only fools the small head. Been done for years with no need for conversation - just IMs or blog posts asking people to "watch my steaming XXX hot webcum".

I wouldn't fall for that

[bogaboga]

I surely would not fall for such! I guess my Russian friends were under the "spell" of vodka. I am meant to understand that Russians are to vodka as Americans are to junk food.