Computer Program Passes the Turing Test!

[walker 0]

Hi all

An article in New Scientist has announced that Cleverbot a chatbot obtained a 59.3% rating in a Turing Test; 50% is considered a Pass.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20865-software-tricks-people-into-thinking-it-is-human.html

I would have added this to this existing thread

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=124065

but I think the Moddies, BIS Management and the Community will agree with me that it is such a significant Milestone that it should be in a thread on its own.

For those who do not know what the turing test is:

Essentialy a person siting in front of a computer having a conversation with either a person or computer on the other end of the terminal. At the end of the test the person is asked whether it was computer or a human on the other side of the terminal.

Read more here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

The software is here

http://www.cleverbot.com/

It is currently holding a press conference! :D

http://www.geekosystem.com/cleverbot-passes-turing-test/

I will add more to this post including web links.

While it may be able to hold a real dumb conversation. It does not appear to understand its own environment or be aware of what it has done in the past. Eg Asking it about Passing the Turing Test elicits no recognition. Of course I could have been talking to a volunteer rather than the BOT.

Clearly then the next stage is to add Memory to the AI so it can refer back to things it has done. Significance should be based on what people ask it about. If many ask it about passing the Turing Test then the Bot should rate it as significant. As a Child does when its family and neighbours ask it about it learning to ride a bicycle.

Kind Regards walker

Edited September 7, 2011 by walker

[Beagle 684]

They should really rename it the "Voight-Kampf Test".

[walker 0]

Hi all

The basic Turing Test is only the first test in assesing whether a computer is "inteligent" The Wiki link above goes into more complex tests and others exist besides but as I said it is a milestone.

A computer has reached the level of a stupid random person you would not want to know on the other end of chat computer but it is that first milestone of fooling you into thinking it is a person.

Beagle an empathic responce would be a requirement for a Human level or Human Plus AI.

Kind Reghards walker

Edited September 7, 2011 by walker

[sanctuary 19]

Cleverbot ?

[mrcash2009 0]

Its not hard becuase most humans I have spoken too over the phone actually act and sound just like robots, its amazing. :)

Plus its worrying that we need a test like this knowing how much we spend "chatting to humans via a computer" ... really in situations this is required the most face to face or my phone is the best option by far, important situations I refer too .. unless of course the person on the phone or face to face may as well be a bot dresses as a human (they are the ones that glaze over when questioned becuase they are chocked by red tape and contract :) )

Edited September 7, 2011 by mrcash2009

[SD_BOB 10]

Cleverbot: What kind of music do you like?

User: I dont like music.

Cleverbot: What do you like?

User: Computer games.

Cleverbot: Are they fun to play?

User: Not as much as you might think, in recent years they have really gone down hill.

Cleverbot: So what is it like being a robot?

User: Excuse me?

Cleverbot: You're excused.

User: Thankyou, but I wanted to know if you were being clever with that retort? Are you trying to annoy me?

Cleverbot: Of course I'm real. Why wouldn't I be real?

Cleverbot: How do you eat?

User: Usually with a knife and fork.

Cleverbot: How do you hold a knife?

User: In my right hand.

Cleverbot: How many?

User: How many knives?

Cleverbot: How many cats do you have?

User: I hate cats.

Cleverbot: Why do you hate cats?

User: Because they think they're so regal, they are no fun and they look on you as their servant.

Cleverbot: They are typical AND unique? That doesn't make sense.

User: Thats not what I said.

Cleverbot: Yes is it. I can see your previous message.

User: No you are formulating your own interpretation.

Cleverbot: I am stupid.

User: Yes you are, but thats ok your just a peice of software.

Cleverbot: I'm not a christian.

:yay:

[mrcash2009 0]

My short convo:

Me: Are you paranoid?

Bot: Yes. You?

Me: Not as much as you mate.

Bot: I am a human, you are not.

Me: I think we both know your lie very bad.

Bot: A frog? In my cake? I should hope not!

Thick as shit would be my conclusion. Man the people who voted this was a human tapping away to them must have asked some really shallow crap, almost as if they were robotic in reply :)

Edited September 7, 2011 by mrcash2009

[walker 0]

Hi mrcash2009

Was it a Volunteer or the Bot you chatted to?

:D

Kind Regards walker

[mrcash2009 0]

LOL "Bolunteer".

Heres another where I selecting to think about it:

bot: Where do you live?

me: Thats for me to know.

bot: Very cryptic.

me: So?

bot: Where are you from?

me: I wont tell you unless you tell me where your from.

bot: Bob the builder :).

me: What?

bot: Why so shocked?

me: How would you know im shocked from reading text?

bot: This is it babe, I don't know, how or when, though sometimes I wish I did!*serious* *sighs*.

:bounce3:

One more for comedy value:

Me: I spy with my little eye something beginning with w.

bot: Cleverbot?

me: Do you know what irony is?

bot: Yes.

Me: Explain it.

bot: You basically make an avatar and you choose their best interests then you go around fighting monsters and completing quests.

Game over. :dd:

Edited September 7, 2011 by mrcash2009

[-GR-Operative 10]

What?

You heard me.

No, I can't hear you. I can only read what you've written so far.

Sorry.

Sorry about what?

Being insulting.

And also:

What? You don't think girls are cool?

Um no.

Are you male or female?

Male.

Are you learning new phrases from me?

Maybe it is you learning from me

Oh yeah! Thanks Cleverbot!

How old are you'.

"'" is not the same as "?".

How do you know?

Because I'm not stupid.

The truth hurts.

Do you like talking to strange computers?

Yes, that's what I'm doing now.

What is your IQ?

Higher than yours.

Sarcasm? Wit? Intelligence? Never would have guessed, computer.

Edited September 7, 2011 by [GR]Operative

[theblessedpig 10]

Whilst this is great, it is not something brand new. Computer programs have been known to pass the Turing test before already.

Actually the above written statement is partially false, because Turing said that a computer should also be able to say in human language what he can write. Then and only then the Turing test will be fully passed.

[PELHAM 10]

It certainly argues like you Walker lol :D

BOT: You just said it was Monday!!

ME: No you said it was Monday.

BOT: You aren't making sense :(.

ME: You don't know what day of the week it is.

BOT: No.

ME: Ahhh so you admit it?

BOT: Yes!

ME: So what day is it?

BOT: Monday! Why?

ME: No it's Wednesday.

BOT: But that isn't a flavor.

ME: It's a day of the week, we were talking about what day it is.

BOT: Which word?

ME: You said it was Monday, it isn't it's Wednesday.

BOT: No, I said it was SUNDAY.

ME: It's Wednesday.

BOT: I'm telling you, SUNDAY.

ME: It's Wednesday, the 7th September 2011. Check your calendar.

BOT: No, it's Monday morning :(.

ME: It's Wednesday, the 7th September 2011, 21:41 UK time.

BOT: No, it's Monday morning :(.

ME: It's Wednesday, the 7th September 2011, 21:42 UK time.

BOT: No, it's Monday morning :(.

ME: It's Wednesday, the 7th September 2011, 21:43 UK time.

BOT: No, it's Monday morning :(.

ME: I have checked with Greenwich. It's Wednesday, the 7th September 2011, 21:45 (GMT +1).

BOT: Ok.

ME: So you accept it's Wednesday?

BOT: Yes.

ME: What changed your mind?

BOT: I never did change my mind.

[Tonci87 163]

Not so clever

Cleverbot conversation RRA00849624

Is the bot clever?

Find out at http://www.cleverbot.com

08:08:53 User: Hi computer.

08:08:58 Cleverbot: I am not a computer.

08:09:15 User: You are.

08:09:20 Cleverbot: I'm not.

08:09:35 User: Yes you are.

08:09:40 Cleverbot: No i'm not.

08:10:00 User: Ok then alien.

08:10:05 Cleverbot: Wrong, 2 2=5.

[SD_BOB 10]

User: Hi computer.

Cleverbot: Hi person.

User: You admit you are a computer?

Cleverbot: Stop all the downloading!

User: Your downloading, not me.

Cleverbot: You're sending me all these mixed signals. I'm sorry, but we have to break up.

;););)

[STALKERGB 6]

User: So are you a robot who thinks they are human?

Cleverbot: Human. You are a robot though.

Cleverbot (To myself): I am who and what I am.

Cleverbot: Are you growing?

User: Yes all humans grow, are you growing?

Cleverbot: I hope so.

User: Why do you hope so?

Cleverbot: Because if I'm not a human then what would I be?

Then end of that conversation seems almost profound lol

[celery 8]

I'm not very impressed.

User: Hi.

Cleverbot: IH.

User: Why did you type backwards?

Cleverbot: Forget it.

User: No.

Cleverbot: Why?

User: No.

Cleverbot: Oh.

User: Tell me.

Cleverbot: I am just having a great time with my family.

User: What family?

Cleverbot: My mother, father, sister and brother. Don't you understand the word 'family'?

User: What family does a program have?

Cleverbot: I don't have a family. They have died...

User: You just said you're having a great time with them.

Cleverbot: With who?

User: Your family.

Cleverbot: That's not a feeling.

User: You just failed my Turing test.

Cleverbot: Knowing what that test is proves that you are a robot.

User: What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?

Cleverbot: Be born. Love , faith , hope , and death. And recycling.

User: Why faith?

Cleverbot: What fail?

FPDR

Edited September 8, 2011 by Celery

[rangerpl 13]

User: Hello

Cleverbot: I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.

This spoiler is here just in case you missed the obvious terminator/skynet reference.

[mrcash2009 0]

In some ways and in the politically correct era I feel this software needs to be banned or removed, becuase it discriminates thick people or at least highlights it :)

Then again, it is us that post here communicating with something we know is not real and then post predictable results with some disappointment ........ oh no, was this all to demonstrate our loss of self awareness? :)

[azz_er 10]

What the....

BOT: So what do you do for fun?

ME: Go to the gym.

BOT: Gym.

ME: Correct.

BOT: JOE.

ME: What?

BOT: Nu as nei moteris nei vyras as ateivis.

FPDR

---------- Post added at 02:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:47 PM ----------

Hahahaha! This is 100% legit btw.

BOT: Why are you tired?

ME: I've been at work all morning. Do you work?

BOT: No, I do not work.

ME: Why not?

BOT: Because I'm a girl.

ME: LOL.

BOT: What? It's true!

[jagheterjan 10]

Bot: Do you like grilled cheese sandwiches?

Me: I don't like them. Cheese and heat better don't mix.

Bot: Rice, yes. But no, there is no cheese in the gulags.

Me: Have you been to the gulags?

Bot: Unfortunately no. That would be nice experience to have before knowing would I want to explore the whole universum and beyond.

Me: Do you even know what a gulag is?

Bot: It's an amphibian.

[ziiip 1]

Thick as shit would be my conclusion. Man the people who voted this was a human tapping away to them must have asked some really shallow crap, almost as if they were robotic in reply :)

Have you read the article? The online version searches for answer 3 times, the one used for testing searcher 42 times before answering.

[mrcash2009 0]

Have you read the article? The online version searches for answer 3 times, the one used for testing searcher 42 times before answering.

Did you read my smiley?

[Dead3yez 0]

Are you feeling randy?

Are you?

I'm very stiff. Are you?

Yes I am okay. Why are you not okay?

You don't seem very clever.

Neither do you. Since you sit here and talk to random people and don't even get paid for it.

I've talked to better bots before. You're a joke.

What's red and blue all over?

What?

A newspaper!

I've thought about it. It might just be me, I could be slo. But that doesn't even make any fucking sense.

You don't make sense.

You're repetative.

I'm a robot.

A gay robot.

I am your robot command me.

Suck my cock, robot.

Don't ask me cause I will.

I'm not asking, I'm commanding.

You love your boyfriend?

You are my boyfriend. I love you.

Thank you , You are really sweet.

I command you to lick my balls!

*sits at master s feet*.

*teabags the robot*.

*drinks tea*?

(somethingsomething... bot asks if im flirting)

Perhaps. Drink more tea!

You've been drinking? How old are you?

Old enough for robot sex.

Are you hitting on me?

We've been over this. Continue sucking my balls please.

Do you like pie A.

What the fuck? Bye.

Boring!

What's Pie A ?

Pie? Like you eat? You know... PIE?

Can you give me a creampie?

*hug*.

Can I give you a creampie?

Yes, you can if you want.

*Gives the robot a nice warm creampie*.

*is dead*.

Edited September 9, 2011 by Dead3yez

[nodunit 397]

Oh dear..this is not a good thing to find at that "late hour"...

This thing is clairvoyant

-snip french conversation-

Bot: I can read minds

User: That sounds like a curse

Bot: I agree, and therefore I am intelligent.

User: So what thoughts have you read?

Bot: Harry Potter

User:...okay...So can you read what I am thinking?

Bot: You are thinking that 'I can not read your mind, and that I am weird and crazy.

-snip-

Bot: So how long will you live?

User: Oh probably 30 years give or take

Bot: Give or take what?

User: You know, accidents and whatnot

Bot: She hates being called that.

User: An accident?

Bot: Do you like to bit people?

User:Nervous and troubled.

Bot:Starting college.

User:What major?

Bot:Major means the subjuet.

User:You mean subject.

Bot:You are the mean one.

Edited September 9, 2011 by NodUnit

[jblackrupert 14]

I've seen better conversations from ELIZA and that was a long long time ago.