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Finally the the Turing Test has been passed! This does not seem as impressive as when imagined decades ago. Fooling perverts, even to the point of sending money

by spikels 13y ago

Finally the the Turing Test has been passed! This does not seem as impressive as when imagined decades ago. Fooling perverts, even to the point of sending money, seems to be much, much easier than creating more generally useful artificial intelligence. But I guess it is a step forward... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test EDIT: As pointed out below only the video feed was artificial. The chat was with a live human. Impressive but very different than the classic Turing Test.

anigbrowl 13y ago
I thought that this was just a virtual face for a human researcher who was conducting the actual conversation - at least that was how the demonstration in the article was done. If they were entirely virtual I'm not sure they'd need 10 weeks to accumulate sufficient hits.
- spikels 13y ago
  You are correct it was just a virtual video feed. I misread the article. I wonder how successful they could be with current AI technology. It seems that in this narrow situation and very "motivated" opponent it could be very successful.
  - anigbrowl 13y ago
    Agreed, but for these purposes it's probably better to have it human-driven to avoid the possibility of entrapment (where the criminal perpetrator is actively encouraged to commit a crime, rather than passively presented with the opportunity to do so). Having said that I'd say it's only 10 years before there's a trade in AI-driven virtual sex partners, which opens up a whole other box of ethical questions.
  - abracar 13y ago
    There's a Spanish initiative called Negobot that seems to rely on AI much more than Sweetie does — as its name suggests, it's a bot, not just a decoy. (Article in English: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/negobot-virtual-lolita-game-theory_n_3579716.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/negobot-virtual-lol... and paper: http://www.esi.uem.es/~jmgomez/papers/cisis12.pdf http://www.esi.uem.es/~jmgomez/papers/cisis12.pdf)

by spikels 13y ago

anigbrowl 13y ago

I thought that this was just a virtual face for a human researcher who was conducting the actual conversation - at least that was how the demonstration in the article was done. If they were entirely virtual I'm not sure they'd need 10 weeks to accumulate sufficient hits.

spikels 13y ago
You are correct it was just a virtual video feed. I misread the article. I wonder how successful they could be with current AI technology. It seems that in this narrow situation and very "motivated" opponent it could be very successful.
- anigbrowl 13y ago
  Agreed, but for these purposes it's probably better to have it human-driven to avoid the possibility of entrapment (where the criminal perpetrator is actively encouraged to commit a crime, rather than passively presented with the opportunity to do so). Having said that I'd say it's only 10 years before there's a trade in AI-driven virtual sex partners, which opens up a whole other box of ethical questions.
- abracar 13y ago
  There's a Spanish initiative called Negobot that seems to rely on AI much more than Sweetie does — as its name suggests, it's a bot, not just a decoy. (Article in English: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/negobot-virtual-lolita-game-theory_n_3579716.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/negobot-virtual-lol... and paper: http://www.esi.uem.es/~jmgomez/papers/cisis12.pdf http://www.esi.uem.es/~jmgomez/papers/cisis12.pdf)