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Is Your IM Buddy Really a Computer?

audiovideodisco writes "Every year the Loebner Prize goes to the chatbot (and the corresponding human companion) that fares best on a Turing test administered by a panel of judges. Discover talked to Kevin Warwick, the professor who runs the competition, to get pointers on how one would go about detecting a bot. While there are some general approaches you can use, nothing is foolproof — and asking about Sarah Palin can be downright deceptive. One judge concluded an interlocutor was a bot because it didn't recognize Palin's name ... but it turned out the chatter was a French librarian who'd simply never heard of her." The chat transcripts show how difficult picking bot from non-bot is getting.

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  1. Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports
    (Note: We are not a GOP-sters, Republicans or affiliated with any parties, and as George Washington warned against parties We do not believe in parties and, unlike most people, We evaluate every issue on a case by case basis and do not defer to the judgments of politicians who are corrupted and untrustworthy as a group.)

    Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, told the European Parliament that President Barack Obama's massive stimulus package and banking bailout "will undermine the stability of the global financial market." Calls Us policy a "way to hell"

    Yuan Forwards Show China May Buy Fewer Treasuries, UBS Says
    Anemic Treasury auction effects felt beyond bonds
    The Sherminator Kicks Some Wall Street Ass

    China Angry That Fed Is Deliberately Destroying The Dollar

    China suggests switch from dollar as reserve currency

    What are the reserve currencies?

    Anatomy of a taxpayer giveaway to investors

    Geithner rescue package 'robbery of the American people'

    Geithner just put only the rich in Titanics lifeboats

    Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers

    A False Choice

    Bargain-hunting house buyers wearing on sellers ajc.com

    Time to Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands

    Socialising and Privatising

    Fannie, Freddie to pay out bonuses

    Fitch Raises Prime Jumbo Loan Loss Estimates Sharply

    Chinas central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund

    - Russia too: It is necessary to work out and adopt internationally recognized standards for macroeconomic and budget policy, which are binding for the leading world economies, including the countries issuing reserve currencies - the Kremlin proposals read.

    - President Barak "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption, Rahm Emanuel (Radical authoritarian Statist whose father was part of the Murderous Civilian Killing Israeli Terrorist Organization known as IRGUN), Connected to Rod Blagojevich (Rahm inherited Rod's federal-congress seat), Connected to Ayers, a man who promotes the concept that civilian collateral damage is ok in a war against freedom, Preacher Jeremiah Wright, who is himself a black-eliti

  2. Change we can believe in. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    YEP

  3. Sara who by KevMar · · Score: 0, Troll

    In another year, most of the US wont remember who she is either.

    Off the top of your head, how many VP picks of the party that didn't make it can you name.

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    Im a gamer, not a grammer major. This post is full of spelling and grammer mistakes.
  4. Re:Palin? Tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The whole point in life is to get pussy and crank out replicants.

    Shows how fucking dumb you are to forgo pussy, and think you are correct about how great Barry Sotero is. You are a fat sexless underpaid or unemployed slashdotting geek with no pussy. All because your arm candy has a fucking opinion you don't agree with you stop seeing her?

    Its not "Her pussy smelled and I lost my erection when fucking her." Its not "her pussy is infertile and fucking her would produce no replicants."

    Its, "I think so highly of myself and think other people with opinions different from my own are annoying so I will forgo pussy to be "right" about a fucking concept. Meanwhile, I'm turning gay or not reproducing in defiance of our reptilian charge to produce."

    If you haven't noticed, the Palin types reproduce. You'll just get voted off the island being a pussy-snob.

    Tsarkon

  5. Re:Palin? Tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    While you talk poppycock and balderdash, I have replicated.

    Good luck, failed genetics. You were created to replicate and you are failing the simplest - the stickiest of the icky.

    And for how much pussy gets put up in movies and art, and gets talked about in music, you might be missing the pussy-point.

    I've laid more pipe than New York plumbing, so I don't need a lesson from and I've replicated. Welcome to the Seminar!

  6. Re:Change we can believe in. YEP. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thanks, useful idiot.

    Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports
    (Note: We are not a GOP-sters, Republicans or affiliated with any parties, and as George Washington warned against parties We do not believe in parties and, unlike most people, We evaluate every issue on a case by case basis and do not defer to the judgments of politicians who are corrupted and untrustworthy as a group.)

    Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, told the European Parliament that President Barack Obama's massive stimulus package and banking bailout "will undermine the stability of the global financial market." Calls Us policy a "way to hell."

    Yuan Forwards Show China May Buy Fewer Treasuries, UBS Says
    Anemic Treasury auction effects felt beyond bonds
    The Sherminator Kicks Some Wall Street Ass
    China Angry That Fed Is Deliberately Destroying The Dollar
    China suggests switch from dollar as reserve currency
    What are the reserve currencies?
    Anatomy of a taxpayer giveaway to investors
    Geithner rescue package 'robbery of the American people'
    Geithner just put only the rich in Titanics lifeboats
    Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers
    A False Choice
    Bargain-hunting house buyers wearing on sellers ajc.com
    Time to Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands
    Socialising and Privatising
    Fannie, Freddie to pay out bonuses
    Fitch Raises Prime Jumbo Loan Loss Estimates Sharply

    Chinas central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund

    - Russia too: It is necessary to work out and adopt internationally recognized standards for macroeconomic and budget policy, which are binding for the leading world economies, including the countries issuing reserve currencies - the Kremlin proposals read.

    - President Barak "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption, Rahm Emanuel (Radical authoritarian Statist whose father was part of the Murderous Civilian Killing Israeli Terrorist Organization known as IRGUN), Connected to Rod Blagojevich (Rahm inherited Rod's federal-congress seat), Connected to Ayers, a man who promotes the concept that civilian collateral damage is ok in a war against freedom, Preacher Jeremiah Wright, who is himself a black-elitist who wants all the peo

  7. Re:I have a way of dealing with this, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports
    (Note: We are not a GOP-sters, Republicans or affiliated with any parties, and as George Washington warned against parties We do not believe in parties and, unlike most people, We evaluate every issue on a case by case basis and do not defer to the judgments of politicians who are corrupted and untrustworthy as a group.)

    Obama is controlled by the same people as Bush see The Obama Deception documentary

    In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

    - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

    Yuan Forwards Show China May Buy Fewer Treasuries, UBS Says
    Anemic Treasury auction effects felt beyond bonds
    The Sherminator Kicks Some Wall Street Ass
    China Angry That Fed Is Deliberately Destroying The Dollar
    China suggests switch from dollar as reserve currency
    What are the reserve currencies?
    Anatomy of a taxpayer giveaway to investors
    Geithner rescue package 'robbery of the American people'
    Geithner just put only the rich in Titanics lifeboats
    Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers
    A False Choice
    Bargain-hunting house buyers wearing on sellers ajc.com
    Time to Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands
    Socialising and Privatising
    Fannie, Freddie to pay out bonuses
    Fitch Raises Prime Jumbo Loan Loss Estimates Sharply

    Chinas central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund

    - Russia on an new world reserve currency: It is necessary to work out and adopt internationally recognized standards for macroeconomic and budget policy, which are binding for the leading world economies, including the countries issuing reserve currencies - the Kremlin proposals read.

    - President Barack "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption. Rahm Emanuel, his Chief of Staff, is radical authoritarian statist whose father was part of the murderous civilian-killing Israeli terrorist organization known as IRGUN who is obsessed with gun control and compulsory service to the country