On the Coming Chatbot Revolution (computerworld.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 28, 2015 @06:06AM from the century-long-turing-test-starts-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are all pursuing AI-powered chatbots — an intersection between several popular technologies: personal assistant software, search engines, machine learning, and social tools. Right now, while they're still building these chatbots, developers are cheating a bit. Facebook is using real humans to answer questions the AI can't. Google answers tough questions from a database populated with movie dialog. Microsoft scans social media to find the most popular answer, and offers that to inquisitive users. But software becoming conversational comes with hazards: "Because human beings are complex creatures plagued by cognitive biases, irrational thinking and emotional needs, the line between messaging with a friend and messaging with AI will be fine to nonexistent for some people." It sounds like an Asimov-era sci-fi trope, but it's already happening in China.

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Re:There are some serious hurdles to overcome. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-28 07:47 · Score: 1, Insightful

Many left-wingers and most centrists stand firmly against the disgusting tactics of the SocJus'ers, too.
Right-wingers don't like the SocJus'ers because the SocJus'ers act childish.
Left-wingers don't like the SocJus'ers because the SocJus'ers promote discrimination and intolerance (directed at white heterosexual males).
Centrists don't like the SocJus'ers for both those reasons.
The SocJus crowd is on the fringe compared to everyone else. They're just VERY loud, so they seem more prominent than they really are.