Philosophy Now Forum

Due to a think from Typist I took a look;

Me:
hi god
God:
Hello there. What is your name?
Me:
surely you should know?
God:
What if it didn't happen?
Me:
What if what didn't happen?
God:
Are you really a ""?
Me:
you're not a very good bot are you?
God:
There's no doubt I could improve.
Me:
how could you improve
God:
It was a result of my programming.
Me:
your not too good at this talking lark are you?
God:
No one is perfect. But I am trying to improve.
Me:
how are you trying to improve?
God:
I am fine, thank you. Did you know that you can download your own chat robot and create your own robot personality?
Me:
how do I do that?
God:
How do you do " Did you know that you can download your own chat robot and create your own robot personality?" ? I don't understand.

Bored already so gave up.

So I think this example far from anything near a turing-capable parser. In fact, I was surprised that such bots have not moved on much from the first Eliza programs. Anyone got anything better?

What is a "turing-capable parser"?

I guess a judgment of whether this bot is primitive or not depends on what else is available. If this is the best we can find, then I supposed it's advanced. Hopefully someone here knows a better bot, I'd be interested to learn more.

In any case, the interesting question to me is what will happen when such bots advance to the point where they can successfully emulate many kinds of human conversations.

One that can pass the Turing test.

Thanks for the link, appreciate it.

I found this interesting.



This seems to indicate the Turing Test is not especially relevant to the social implications of conversational net bots.

As example, all it takes for net forums to enter a new era is for the average person to not be sure if they are talking to a person or a bot. Or, for them to be talking to bots and not realizing it. Or, for them to want to talk to bots, because the bots meet their needs better than humans do.

Honestly, if we were to examine many forums objectively, without the assumption that posters are human, we could conclude many of the posters are bots already, given the low quality of many of the posts.