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Title: Robots' first conversation descends into argument
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URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo ... on-descends-into-argument.html
Published: Sep 21, 2011
Author: Myles Burke
Post Date: 2011-09-21 12:34:44 by Ada
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Views: 370
Comments: 17
Two chatbots forget the etiquette of avoiding religion, sex or politics in conversation when two PhD students at Cornell University introduced the pair to eachother. Cornell University researchers Jason Yosinski and Igor Labutov rigged up a chatbot system to allow online avatars to talk to each other. Chatbots are designed to emulate the conversational abilities of humans, usually in an attempt to pass the Turing Test for intelligence. Alan Turing in his 1950 paper proposed that if a computer could fool a sufficiently adept human while conversing with them into thinking that the machine is another human, that computer could be then called intelligent. However, the conversation rapidly descended into inane bickering, outright lies and insults. One avatar claimed he was a unicorn, told his female counterpart she was a "meanie" and after criticising her for being mistaken, followed it up with the sarcastic line: "Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you."
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#3. To: Ada (#0)
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There's your trouble! If they were trying to prove intelligence, then it should have been 2 men instead of a man and woman. Stupid scientists.
One avatar claimed he was a unicorn, told his female counterpart she was a "meanie" There's your trouble! If they were trying to prove intelligence, then it should have been 2 men instead of a man and woman. Women are hysterical and irrational and most need a good rogering.
If a man speaks in the dessert with no woman there to hear, is he still wrong?
#11. To: farmfriend (#8)
Only if we got stranded in the desert because we refused to ask for directions. Otherwise, we are never wrong.
Shut up, weisenheimer wench!
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestOne avatar claimed he was a unicorn, told his female counterpart she was a "meanie"
#4. To: PSUSA2, christine, farmfriend, abraxas (#3)
To: Ada
#8. To: Turtle, PSUSA2, christine, abraxas (#4)
Women are hysterical and irrational and most need a good rogering.
Replies to Comment # 8. If a man speaks in the dessert with no woman there to hear, is he still wrong?
#16. To: farmfriend (#8)
If a man speaks in the dessert with no woman there to hear, is he still wrong?
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