Scientists force two chatbots to have a conversation, prove that Skynet will be a moron

[pokerfan]

Researchers at Cornell's Creative Machines Lab thought it would be entertaining to allow Cleverbot — a program that's designed to imitate and accurately respond to human voices — to have a conversation with itself.

After a few semi-hostile remarks, things quickly took a turn for the verbal diarrhea. Folks, this is why the machines will never rise. They'll be too busy screaming about unicorns and navel gazing like Philosophy 101 students.

http://io9.com/5835508/scientists-force-two-chatbots-have-a-conversation-prove-that-skynet-will-be-a-moron

:rofl:

[sakabatou]

1. Voila

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9770048

[pokerfan]

2. Endless apologies for the dupe

:hi:

[sakabatou]

4. No prob.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. My kids loved that, thanks. :^)

[TalkingDog]

5. At least they sound smarter than Republican Teabaggers

nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. The joke is on us. They're talking in code. The attack begins at 10:27 am tomorrow!

[laconicsax]

7. The problem is that Cleverbot is very poorly designed.

www.cleverbot.com

It's programmed to merely repeat what it's already seen verbatim. That's why the conversation never starts. Here's a 'conversation' I just had:

Hello.
Hello.
What's your name?
Bobby. What's yours?
Laconicsax. What's yours?
Your name is Kylie? Like Minogue?

There's a reason why it's only gotten to 42% in a Turing test. (Incidentally, the same rate as young-earth creationists.)

[Hugabear]

8. Why is computer generated speech still so awful?

Computer generated speech sounds about the same as it did on my Commodore 64 back in the mid-80s. You'd think that after 25 years, the technology behind that would have evolved somewhat.