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Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test?
kruhft writes "It seems that Cleverbot, the chatbot so ready to admit that it was a unicorn during a discussion with itself, has passed the Turing test. This past Sunday, the 1334 votes from a Turing test held at the Techniche festival in Guwahati, India were released. They revealed that Cleverbot was voted to be human 59.3% of the time. Real humans did only slightly better and were assumed to be humans 63.3% of the time." As the Wikipedia link above points out, though, there's no single, simple "Turing Test," per se — many systems have successfully convinced humans over the years. Perhaps Cleverbot would consent to taking part in a Slashdot interview, to be extra-convincing.
Occasionally you can get a witty or funny answer, but no more than random chance. Often you just get something stupid or out of context back.
Which just goes to show any sufficiently advanced AI is indistinguishable from Slashdot.
"... and more and more now there are all kinds of electronic goodies available" -- Pink Floyd 1972