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Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test?

Posted by timothy on from the more-convincing-than-some-tech-support-scripts dept.

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.

4 of 427 comments (clear)

  1. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nothing unusual about the grammar. "Maths" is what they call "math" over in America.

    Best wishes from Great Britain.

  2. This says it all... by Excelcia · · Score: 5, Informative

    Conversation I just had...

    Hello. My name is Kurt.
    What kinda name is that.
    German.
    Cool! Me too!
    You're German?
    Czech.
    So you're not German?
    I am not.
    Then why did you say "me too"?
    I didn't.
    Did the lobotomy hurt?
    Where did th ebarn come from?

  3. Re:Next step by monkyyy · · Score: 2, Informative

    i am a unicorn

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  4. Re:Definitely not by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't read those as "Chatterbot passes turing test." I read them as "Human fails turing test."

    Someone took an ALICE-like bot to IRC, loaded with slightly-flirtatious dialog and with a slightly-flirtatious and female name. It got hit on, and it fooled entirely too many guys for entirely too long.

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