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Cleverbot, supposedly has passed the Turing test. I have my doubts, but there is something to say about this Internet accomplishment. There will always be dou

by kruhft 15y ago

Cleverbot, supposedly has passed the Turing test. I have my doubts, but there is something to say about this Internet accomplishment. There will always be doubt about passing this test as it is not mathematical proof, which is probably why Turing proposed it.

batista 15y ago
Cleverbot, supposedly has passed the Turing test. I seriously doubt it. Here's a conversation I just had with it: Me: What's your name? CB: My name? Me: Yes. CB: What's your name? Me: Suzan. CB: Nope. Me: Nope what? CB: Nope, allessander is not my name. This is sub-Eliza quality...
- unimpressive 15y ago
  The version brought to the test had more computing power for the one conversation, and other tune-ups IIRC. EDIT: http://cleverbot.com/human http://cleverbot.com/human "Cleverbot was given more processing power for this test than it can be online. It had two dedicated, fast computers with solid state drives while talking to just 1 or 2 people at once. Online there are often 1000 people talking to each machine. We know you'd all love to talk to it the powerful version, but we need a lot more servers first! "
  - Jach 15y ago
    Thanks for the link. I had similar thoughts to the original downvoted commenter. I talked to one of the various IM bots in 2006, and they've been around a lot longer than that, and I thought that apart from its constant advertising to me it was remarkably human-like especially when it sometimes used 'u' instead of 'you'. If it had more processing power and memory, a better memory, and didn't have a goal of making money through advertising, I thought back then it had a decent chance at fooling humans. That's all the Turing Test is, it's fooling humans, and humans are incredibly easy to fool--you don't need human level intelligence to fool one. Just several months ago I only realized that a response I got on a craigslist posting was made by a bot after I replied and it replied back with an almost word-for-word copy of its original message (and urged me to fill out a form of personal info). Simple hacks like avoiding repeating the same things, remembering information shared to whom and to you from whom, and the occasional intentional grammatical error go a long way to trick the human. I think we could have had multiple Turing Test passes over the past couple years if that was actually an important goal. But I think most people in AI realize there are more interesting problems to work on than AI PR so projects like CleverBot aren't given top priority.

by kruhft 15y ago

batista 15y ago

Cleverbot, supposedly has passed the Turing test. I seriously doubt it. Here's a conversation I just had with it: Me: What's your name? CB: My name? Me: Yes. CB: What's your name? Me: Suzan. CB: Nope. Me: Nope what? CB: Nope, allessander is not my name. This is sub-Eliza quality...

unimpressive 15y ago
The version brought to the test had more computing power for the one conversation, and other tune-ups IIRC. EDIT: http://cleverbot.com/human http://cleverbot.com/human "Cleverbot was given more processing power for this test than it can be online. It had two dedicated, fast computers with solid state drives while talking to just 1 or 2 people at once. Online there are often 1000 people talking to each machine. We know you'd all love to talk to it the powerful version, but we need a lot more servers first! "
- Jach 15y ago
  Thanks for the link. I had similar thoughts to the original downvoted commenter. I talked to one of the various IM bots in 2006, and they've been around a lot longer than that, and I thought that apart from its constant advertising to me it was remarkably human-like especially when it sometimes used 'u' instead of 'you'. If it had more processing power and memory, a better memory, and didn't have a goal of making money through advertising, I thought back then it had a decent chance at fooling humans. That's all the Turing Test is, it's fooling humans, and humans are incredibly easy to fool--you don't need human level intelligence to fool one. Just several months ago I only realized that a response I got on a craigslist posting was made by a bot after I replied and it replied back with an almost word-for-word copy of its original message (and urged me to fill out a form of personal info). Simple hacks like avoiding repeating the same things, remembering information shared to whom and to you from whom, and the occasional intentional grammatical error go a long way to trick the human. I think we could have had multiple Turing Test passes over the past couple years if that was actually an important goal. But I think most people in AI realize there are more interesting problems to work on than AI PR so projects like CleverBot aren't given top priority.