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.

Comments

Re:WTF?

[Exitar]

I've tried to repeat the same question of yours:

If I have 5 ostriches, and two run away, how many are left?
One.
If I have 5 ostriches, and two run away, how many are left?
Ohhhhhh! I'm going Digital, Completly Digital, Now I'm invincible, Let's all get Digital!
If I have 5 ostriches, and two run away, how many are left?
Four.
If I have 5 ostriches, and two run away, how many are left?
Seven.
If I have 5 ostriches, and two run away, how many are left?
2, unless you destroy 1.
If I have 5 ostriches, and two run away, how many are left?
What's a happle?
If I have 5 ostriches, and two run away, how many are left?
Dos? Zwei? Ni? 2?
If I have 5 ostriches, and two run away, how many are left?
Eight.
If I have 5 ostriches, and two run away, how many are left?
Whole apples?

Cleverbot is a bad example of a chatterbot.

[Z8]

According to the wiki page, it just selects canned responses from its database. I think this approach just gets you garbage, or at the very least is a dead-end in trying to beat the Turing test.

The best Turing Test is probably the Loebner Prize and at least the contestants seem much better than Cleverbot. There's an example conversation from Suzette (the latest winner) here. (But it's hard to tell if that is typical or simply a lucky exchange for the computer.) But anyway, as is clear from this interesting story written by a contestant about the Loebner prize, bots are no where near winning that version of the Turing test, as long as the humans are paying attention.

Re:WTF?

[digitig]

I think the fact that 59% of people thought it was human says a lot more about the intelligence of the average human than it says about the bot...

From the RA: "Cleverbot is available for conversation online, but don’t be fooled. Although Cleverbot managed to score well on the Turing test, the model that did that is different from the one you’ll find online."