since these programs are absolutely "dead" and have nothing in common with the spiritual machines to come I think it's a ok to have a wack at them (without fearing retaliation, ever) for a laugh
may I suggest to go at google directory of chatterbots to pick one and chat it up old skool text input sierra gaming stylee about grotesque and/or grandiose stuff etc
what is the turing test?:
"The Turing Test was introduced by Alan M. Turing (1912-1954) as "the imitation game" in his 1950 article (now available online) Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Mind, Vol. 59, No. 236, pp. 433-460) which he so boldly began by the following sentence:
I propose to consider the question "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think."
Turing Test is meant to determine if a computer program has intelligence. Quoting Turing, the original imitation game can be described as follows:
The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a game which we call the "imitation game." It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart from the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A." The interrogator is allowed to put questions to A and B.
When talking about the Turing Test today what is generally understood is the following: The interrogator is connected to one person and one machine via a terminal, therefore can't see her counterparts. Her task is to find out which of the two candidates is the machine, and which is the human only by asking them questions. If the machine can "fool" the interrogator, it is intelligent.
This test has been subject to different kinds of criticism and has been at the heart of many discussions in AI, philosophy and cognitive science for the past 50 years. "
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 7 April 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)
I can't help but wonder how many ILX regulars might fail the Turing test.
(less than across the internet in general, I imagine)
― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 7 April 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)
tell me about ILX regulars, caitlin
― Alan (Alan), Monday, 7 April 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)
I wrote a chatterbot many years ago, called Claude. That was so long ago that Claude now qualifies as a "classic chatterbot". It can still be found, if you shake the Internet hard enough to dislodge flurries of dust. The Google URL given above will lead you to it, if you are curious. And if you find it, you will even learn my true name - although I doubt anyone would care about that.
― Aimless, Monday, 7 April 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)
eight years pass...
I'm working on a new chatterbot now, to pass my time pleasantly while also keeping my neurons in trim. It may be ready in a few years. atm I am teaching it to sort through the amazing clutter of typos and misspellings a human can generate. This task would be much simpler if humans did not have so many thousands of ways to screw up.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago)