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Eugene Transcripts (2008) [pdf]

9 points by thegeomaster 12y ago

Udo 12y ago
This confirms earlier results reported by people trying out the bot: [2008-10-12 08:41:03.468] local sent: I'm feeling well thanks, have you had breakfast this morning? [2008-10-12 08:41:11.890] remote sent: Nice to hear that! Do you like the weather? ... [2008-10-12 08:42:43.078] local sent: what is your native town [2008-10-12 08:42:51.593] remote sent: The weather is always as bad as you think it is. I do believe that the world just a mare reflection of our thoughts... It's just context-free, tone-deaf exchanges like that the entire time. I'm having trouble distinguishing this from a run-of-the-mill chat bot. Is the only difference here PR? Or was bad grammar and spelling actually enough to fool someone even though the bot clearly didn't know how to react to simple questions?
- thegeomaster 12y ago
  Same thoughts here. People were complaining that it's not fair to judge the bot available on the web[1] because it's an older version, but it seems like more or less the same version used in this Loebner contest. I don't know for the most recent one, but I can't imagine it's changed an awful lot. [1]: http://princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp http://princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp
DanBC 12y ago
So, this is dated 2008. That gives about 5 years to create and tune the most amazing AIML ever, and create a brilliant engine. Or maybe the recent results have just been PR'd a bit too hard. The fact that for some situations we don't know wherher we're talking to a bot or a human really just tells us how awful online communication is. That help script the human is following? It sucks. The script the salesperson is following? That sucks too. Most people's use of online communities to communicate? Urgh. I'd be interested to see what the results would be if very smart people collaborated / competed to create a Dr-bot. Tell it your symptoms and it knows enough to send you to a pharmacist, a doctor, the ER, or call an ambulance. Because in the UK we uave telephone lines that are supposed to be able to do that. They were created to stop people going to A&E if they didn't need to go. The phone lines end up sending more people to A&E.

9 points by thegeomaster 12y ago

Udo 12y ago

This confirms earlier results reported by people trying out the bot: [2008-10-12 08:41:03.468] local sent: I'm feeling well thanks, have you had breakfast this morning? [2008-10-12 08:41:11.890] remote sent: Nice to hear that! Do you like the weather? ... [2008-10-12 08:42:43.078] local sent: what is your native town [2008-10-12 08:42:51.593] remote sent: The weather is always as bad as you think it is. I do believe that the world just a mare reflection of our thoughts... It's just context-free, tone-deaf exchanges like that the entire time. I'm having trouble distinguishing this from a run-of-the-mill chat bot. Is the only difference here PR? Or was bad grammar and spelling actually enough to fool someone even though the bot clearly didn't know how to react to simple questions?

thegeomaster 12y ago
Same thoughts here. People were complaining that it's not fair to judge the bot available on the web[1] because it's an older version, but it seems like more or less the same version used in this Loebner contest. I don't know for the most recent one, but I can't imagine it's changed an awful lot. [1]: http://princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp http://princetonai.com/bot/bot.jsp

DanBC 12y ago

So, this is dated 2008. That gives about 5 years to create and tune the most amazing AIML ever, and create a brilliant engine. Or maybe the recent results have just been PR'd a bit too hard. The fact that for some situations we don't know wherher we're talking to a bot or a human really just tells us how awful online communication is. That help script the human is following? It sucks. The script the salesperson is following? That sucks too. Most people's use of online communities to communicate? Urgh. I'd be interested to see what the results would be if very smart people collaborated / competed to create a Dr-bot. Tell it your symptoms and it knows enough to send you to a pharmacist, a doctor, the ER, or call an ambulance. Because in the UK we uave telephone lines that are supposed to be able to do that. They were created to stop people going to A&E if they didn't need to go. The phone lines end up sending more people to A&E.