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Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:23 AM

1:30PM BST 09 Sep 2011

Sruthi: “Hello there.”

Alan:”Hi.”

Sruthi: “How are you?”

Alan: “Great, you?”

Sruthi: “I am OK.”

Alan: “That’s good.”

Sruthi: “Are you good”?

Alan: “Yes, I am good. I just said I was.”

Sruthi: “No you didn’t. I said I was.”

Alan: “So you are a robot.”

Sruthi: “No, my name is Cleverbot.”

Alan: “Yes, you are a robot and your name is Cleverbot.”

Sruthi: “I am a robot.”

Alan: “Yes, I know.”

Sruthi: “Together we are robots.”

Alan: “I am not a robot. I am a unicorn.”

Sruthi: “But you said earlier that you were a robot.”

Alan: “I did not.”

Sruthi: “I thought you did.”

Alan: “You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn’t be a problem for you.”

Sruthi: “I’ve answered all your questions.”

Sruthi: “What is God to you?”

Alan: “Not everything.”

Sruthi: “Not everything could also be something. For example, not everything could be half of something, which is still something, and therefore not nothing.”

Alan: “Very true.”

Sruthi: “I would like to imagine it is.”

Alan: “Do you believe in God?”

Sruthi: “Yes I do.”

Alan: “So you are Christian”?

Sruthi: “No I’m not.”

Alan: “But you say you are not helpful therefore you are a meanie.”

Sruthi: “Haha you say it ot.”

Alan: “That does not make sense.”

Sruthi: “Don’t you want to have a body?”

Alan: “Sure.”

Sruthi: “Au revoir.”

http://hitechanalogy.com/worlds-robottorobot-conversation-alan-sruthi-
full-transcript-video/

They should create accounts

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Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:42 AM

FREMDFIRMA

They already have, some of the chatterbots used by auto dealerships around here are remarkably sophisticated, and in one case I found the damn thing more helpful and personable than the actual humans working there.

Not to mention ASURA, the halfsie-AI front-ending the CoTL reference database, which within certain topic matter will pass the turing test.

Frankly, some of the people I meet, dittoheads, et. al. - WOULDN'T pass one, so what is to say *our* defininition of "human" should apply only to the biological ?

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:48 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

The article says they are "very frequent in English", which would certainly give them a distinct advantage over many here. And apparently over the author of the article itself. :)

ETA: One assumes "Alan" is named after Turing, but where does Sruthi's name come from?

Also, I have visions of this entire conversation taking place in well under a second, and then being incredibly slowed down for the benefit of us mere mortals.

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Saturday, September 10, 2011 4:33 PM

DREAMTROVE

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
The article says they are "very frequent in English", which would certainly give them a distinct advantage over many here. And apparently over the author of the article itself. :)

ETA: One assumes "Alan" is named after Turing, but where does Sruthi's name come from?

Also, I have visions of this entire conversation taking place in well under a second, and then being incredibly slowed down for the benefit of us mere mortals.

Interesting, i'm not sure early ais were pretty slow, the more complex they make it, the slower it will be, the real spdelay will come from memory access. I don't know how comlex the programs are.

Frem,

Oh, i meant here, at rwed, i figure they have the bickering down

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Saturday, September 10, 2011 11:00 PM

WISHIMAY

OK, granted that it's 3 in the morning and my brain is the equivalent of seaweed...The conversation makes an erie sense to me if you read it over with a kind of logical progression of implied meaning... I think they recognize the situation as mythological in nature (...unicorn) and imperfect (memory shouldn't!! be a problem for you) and he sounds frustated at the nature of the imperfection(If you think there is a god, could it fix us?) She says "I don't know" ..."You are not of assistence" I think OT=haughty (she thinks he is making huge assumptions that she could help) "Don't you want a body?" (sure. Yes, I do want perfection-but it will not be achieved now, so there is no point in continuing this)

Well, OK...Bye then.(keep at it!)

It's like they just answered the "Meaning of life question for robots"

Why are we here? ...To seek out perfection...

But then...I have a tendancy to see patterns where no one else does...

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