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Variations On the Classic Turing Test
holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on the different flavors of Turing Test being used by AI researchers to judge the human-ness of their creations. While some strive only to meet the 'appearance Turing Test' and build or animate characters that look human, others are investigating how robots can be made to elicit the same brain activity in a person as interacting with a human would."
Arrgg... I just took the test and failed. Does this mean that I'm ready to run Linux, and when I die I'll be running FreeBSD?
FORMALISTS' MOTTO: Take care of the syntax and the semantics will take care of itself.
Also, if you are animating a dude, he is thinking about sex. If you are animating anyone else, they are thinking about shopping.
Technically AI is not hard, you just need to lower your mind-mechanics bar and focus on trailer parks, and folk psychology.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
I dunno, but I get the feeling that Solaris 10 must somehow be involved.
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Ninnle Linux is not only capable of independent thought, but is also completely self aware. This is the latest development from Ninnle Labs.
We do interviews via IM and if the interviewee cannot convince two out of three of the interviewers they are not a bot, they don't make it to the second round.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
The wife and I were looking for ways to spice up the ol' Turing Test.
Escape Pod Films: Sketch Comedy and Web Series
http://xkcd.com/329/
While some strive only to meet the 'appearance Turing Test'
I don't come here to be insulted, you insensitive clod!
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Don't get me wrong, I have a great respect for these scientists, I just wonder how these sorts of real robots will fare on the market.
I think the idea is that robots will be used to do things that humans aren't willing to put up with.
Which means if you can't find someone to put up with you, then maybe a robot is for you.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
The easiest way to tell if you are talking to a chat bot
Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention.
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
Artificial intelligence came a step closer this weekend when a computer came within five percent of passing the Turing Test, which the computer passes if people cannot tell between the computer and a human.
The winning conversation was with competitor LOLBOT:
The human tester said he couldn't believe a computer could be so mind-numbingly stupid.
LOLBOT has since been released into the wild to post random abuse, hentai manga and titty shots to 4chan, after having been banned from YouTube for commenting in a perspicacious and on-topic manner.
LOLBOT was also preemptively banned from editing Wikipedia. "We don't consider this sort of thing a suitable use of the encyclopedia," sniffed administrator WikiFiddler451, who said it had nothing to do with his having been one of the human test subjects picked as a computer.
"This is a marvellous achievement, and shows great progress toward goals I've worked for all my life," said Professor Kevin Warwick of the University of Reading, confirming his status as a system failing the Turing test.
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its out there, you're just not looking. or your standards are too high (which seems to be a bit of a contradiction given what OP implies)
(posting AC for obvious reasons, LOL)
"A really good AI would be able to keep on topic and understand what has been discussed previously"
Such an AI posting to slashdot would quickly be revealed.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.