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More realistic than SkyNet was the only qualification given, but point taken.
by byoung2 9y ago
More realistic than SkyNet was the only qualification given, but point taken.
- eesmith 9y agoYour are right that "more realistic" isn't the same as "realistic". I took it to mean the latter as otherwise we're in movie plot territory. I regard "what if in the near future" as another qualification.
- byoung2 9y agoI think we're within 20 years of computers being able to hold a freeform conversation in text or speech to do what I described. To chat someone up on Facebook or the equivalent, talk on the phone and convincingly imitate a real person. For reference, Dr. Sbaitso was created in 1991[1], and look how far we've come since then with Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, Bixby. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sbaitso https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sbaitso
- eesmith 9y agoHmm, what you wrote was "socially engineer passwords and banking info from victims online". According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test : > In the 21st century, versions of these programs (now known as "chatterbots") continue to fool people. "CyberLover", a malware program, preys on Internet users by convincing them to "reveal information about their identities or to lead them to visit a web site that will deliver malicious content to their computers".[33] The program has emerged as a "Valentine-risk" flirting with people "seeking relationships online in order to collect their personal data".[34] It may be that a computer with the ability to hold a freeform conversation/"advanced AI" is not necessary to do the social engineering you mentioned earlier.