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Clever as this is, how could it really fool anyone (aware of the existence of bots)?

• Houshalter 12y ago
  Well this is a much older version of the bot I believe. Additionally most people do not ask adversarial questions, but rather try to have a normal conversation, which bots are quite good at. You also have to have prior knowledge about how chatbots work in order to know what kinds of things it is bad at (e.g. common sense knowledge about the world, which most people wouldn't think to ask about or would come up in conversation normally.) A Watson like QA system could potentially fix that weakness and answer the questions he asked. The press release described it as running on a supercomputer, so it's possible they were doing something like that. But then someone would find another weakness in it, and so on.
  • jpindar 12y ago
    The normal conversations I have with people do not consist primarily of them trying to change the subject.
    • Houshalter 12y ago
      Neither does a "normal" conversation with the bot. It only tries to change it when you start probing for weaknesses and going off script.