Mark V. Shaney
Monday, March 31st, 2008Noah Slater called my attention to this:
He’s doing something similar, using an IRC bot. At first, it fooled me… it looked like a quite literate human on drugs. Then, I started noticing some patterns, and eventually found out. However, I’m still kind of embarrassed about this… my faith on the Turing test has decreased, not because machines are supposedly getting smarter, but rather because i start to believe that the conditions of a hypothetical “Turing test” should be more constrained than previously thought: i.e. the machine should convince the human that he’s talking with a sane and sober human being.