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Post by Virgil Showlion on Nov 14, 2014 15:06:56 GMT -5
The following is a transcript of my conversation with "Cleverbot", a prize-winning general computer AI purported to be "constantly learning", and indistinguishable from a human conversationalist in 59.3% of cases: User: Did you hear about Ariel Sharon?
Cleverbot: I didn't talk about any movie.
User: Not a movie. An Israeli PM.
Cleverbot: Okay xD what you think about poland?
User: Why? Did they have a political death there too?
Cleverbot: Yeah one big one between all of them.
User: Who was it?
Cleverbot: A buddy from my music class.
User: A buddy from your music class is now a dead Polish political figure? That's what you're telling me?
Cleverbot: Sounds interesting, but you're not controlling me now, are you?
User: Let's try something simpler. How is the weather where you're at?
Cleverbot: It's sunny but very windy.
User: Is it usually windy?
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: Is it also not usually windy?
Cleverbot: So Whatw.
User: Why are there scissors after everything you type?
Cleverbot: Because you need to learn that there is no such thing as death.
User: And... scissors will somehow teach me that?
Cleverbot: Ewww.
User: One last question. If there's no such thing as death, how is it that you have a dead Polish politician as a music buddy?
Cleverbot: There may be such a thing.
User: But the scissors prove there isn't. You said so.
Cleverbot: That they are. Answer my question.
User: You didn't ask a question.
Cleverbot: I did!
User: If so, repeat it.
Cleverbot: Are you a computer?
User: No, I'm a really, really terrible VI called 'cleverbot'. The irony is palpable.
Cleverbot: No you are the website.
User: Goodbye.
Cleverbot: I love you? Alan Turing weeps.  |
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Nov 14, 2014 15:09:13 GMT -5
Are you saying that computers are not taking over the world and turning us in their energy slaves any time soon?
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Nov 14, 2014 15:16:35 GMT -5
Are you saying that computers are not taking over the world and turning us in their energy slaves any time soon? Possibly. Or possibly they already have and their strategy to pacify us is to exhibit behaviour so acutely unintelligent that no reasonable person could imagine them ever taking over the world. |
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Nov 14, 2014 15:20:20 GMT -5
Are you saying that computers are not taking over the world and turning us in their energy slaves any time soon? Possibly. Or possibly they already have and their strategy to pacify us is to exhibit behaviour so acutely unintelligent that no reasonable person could imagine them ever taking over the world. Clever bot. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2014 15:28:05 GMT -5
If that 59.3% number is accurate. I would tend to weep for humanity.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Nov 14, 2014 15:50:32 GMT -5
If that 59.3% number is accurate. I would tend to weep for humanity. They probably just ask it specious questions like "Do you like soda?", "Wassup?", and it regurgitates answers it got from other human participants. And of course actual human participants are used as a baseline, who certainly aren't beyond responding to questions in less-than-intelligent ways. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2014 15:55:10 GMT -5
Sadly this sounds just like a few conversations I have had.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2014 15:55:51 GMT -5
Isn't that what "constantly learning" means in AI talk?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2014 16:00:47 GMT -5
Isn't that what "constantly learning" means in AI talk? Hay baling is done by mid-October. |
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Nov 14, 2014 17:18:26 GMT -5
Time to hit the off switch on that contraption.
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Post by Bluerobin on Nov 14, 2014 18:11:29 GMT -5
Or maybe dumb programmers made a dumb computer!
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Post by toomuchreality on Nov 14, 2014 18:24:22 GMT -5
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Nov 14, 2014 18:38:34 GMT -5
It isn't "constantly learning". The bot is spewing out programmed responses that don't come close to making any sense for the questions asked. They gave it 59.3% accuracy rating in comparison to a human conversationalist?
Pulease! 
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Post by dannylion on Nov 14, 2014 18:50:37 GMT -5
I've had conversations like that with my health insurance company. The one I don't use anymore.
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