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The Turing Test: Transcripts of the best attempts

8 points by artagnon 17y ago

Mathnerd314 17y ago
Rather difficult to read.
- miloshh 17y ago
  They have a player that you need to download. I did, ready to be blown away by recent advances in Turing test bots, but seems like we're still decades away from a program that could possibly pass the test.
scotty79 17y ago
That is horrid. After comparing human to human conversation and bot to human I feel like goal of conversing with computer is so far away. People communicate through such narrow channel. Few words, almost no grammar and they still can stay perfectly in sync. If bot tries to imitate the style it descends in pure nonsense. If it does not it still seems like it's not capable of understanding anything. I think another approach would be to ditch grammar and just build some kind of word and word combinations associative database fed with extensive memoirs of single person. If bot spots a question it should respond with closest word combinations found in database. Also it should remember what was said and use it as a context while seeking for answer.
- artagnon 17y ago
  "How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker is a fantastic take on this topic.
- yters 17y ago
  That's not really AI since the person generated all the knowledge and the bot just copies it. That's like Deep Blue beating Kasparov using a bunch of lookup tables based on the best chess masters. At that point, Big Blue isn't really playing, Kasparov is just playing against a bunch of chess masters.
  - scotty79 17y ago
    Right, but it's still winning the game. If you don't start by copying single human you will always end up with patched up Frankenstein like creature that can be easily discernible from human. Besides, mind is just big lookup table with simple, not very effective reasoning engine and desire to fill in the gaps in the table.
dustingetz 17y ago
you have to install a .exe player to view the transcripts.
nicpottier 17y ago
Fail for not having them viewable in an easy format.
cjp 17y ago
I was bored so I whipped up a (very hacky) python script to read the log. http://gist.github.com/267399 http://gist.github.com/267399

8 points by artagnon 17y ago

Mathnerd314 17y ago

Rather difficult to read.

miloshh 17y ago
They have a player that you need to download. I did, ready to be blown away by recent advances in Turing test bots, but seems like we're still decades away from a program that could possibly pass the test.

scotty79 17y ago

That is horrid. After comparing human to human conversation and bot to human I feel like goal of conversing with computer is so far away. People communicate through such narrow channel. Few words, almost no grammar and they still can stay perfectly in sync. If bot tries to imitate the style it descends in pure nonsense. If it does not it still seems like it's not capable of understanding anything. I think another approach would be to ditch grammar and just build some kind of word and word combinations associative database fed with extensive memoirs of single person. If bot spots a question it should respond with closest word combinations found in database. Also it should remember what was said and use it as a context while seeking for answer.

artagnon 17y ago
"How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker is a fantastic take on this topic.
yters 17y ago
That's not really AI since the person generated all the knowledge and the bot just copies it. That's like Deep Blue beating Kasparov using a bunch of lookup tables based on the best chess masters. At that point, Big Blue isn't really playing, Kasparov is just playing against a bunch of chess masters.
- scotty79 17y ago
  Right, but it's still winning the game. If you don't start by copying single human you will always end up with patched up Frankenstein like creature that can be easily discernible from human. Besides, mind is just big lookup table with simple, not very effective reasoning engine and desire to fill in the gaps in the table.

dustingetz 17y ago

you have to install a .exe player to view the transcripts.

nicpottier 17y ago

Fail for not having them viewable in an easy format.

cjp 17y ago

I was bored so I whipped up a (very hacky) python script to read the log. http://gist.github.com/267399 http://gist.github.com/267399