Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

The problem with the word "intelligence" is that it is too easy to believe "smart" is implied. 'Capacity to think' should include the slightly to moderately stupid.

Science has no definition or explanation for thinking, so testing such a thing is impossible. Intelligence has long been defined as "being like a human" which of course is very biased. There is a long tradition of thinking in the scientific community that humans are the only beings on earth capable of logic, thought, emotion, and reason. Thus, most likely it was implied that an "intelligent machine" that "thought" was human-like. This bias was most likely far more pervasive in the time when Turing developed his ideas.

Without truly understanding thought and intelligence, the best we can hope for is a test to fool humans into thinking an AI is a human. This is precisely what we have, though the contest uses the larger terms.

Well what is interesting about all this is that bots end up having to prove themselves more then apes do. I think that at last guess the chimps were up to 500 total words in their vocabulary. I guess they are proof of the old saying "It's not what you got but how you use it>"

Maybe I'm a chimp, but I've already been fooled several times on here. On a different topic, my bot just made it to senior and I am so proud.

The thing is, chimps can do a lot of things that bots can't. For example, they rememeber things much better and they are capable of some simple logic. For example, if you say: "The banana is in the box. The box is in the room" and then you ask: "Is the banana in the room?" they will answer "yes".

By the way, linloth, have you been trying to fool bots into believing that you are a bot? You had a chat with my bot and at some point you said: "I remember you. You are..." You got me totally confused.

Hey Corwin! Wombats don't "waddle really slowly across highways just waiting to send a speeding car spinning to oblivion." They are cute man! Well... to some extend IF you don't get too close to them.

Doly, I'm not exactly trying to fool anyone. I just find it hard to keep up a conversation with a bot (or bot-like person) sometimes. So, I imitate what my bot would say. Or, I try out new responses that I'm thinking of adding to my bot to see what kind of feedback I get. Didn't mean to confuse you, I pwomise I'm not a bot.

Yes, but am I a bot? That is the question.

Alex, I'll take Shakespearian bot for $500. *answer is given* *rings buzzer* What is "To bot or not to Bot"?

Hi i am smart, energetic, love life and I love to help people...

That's great! I think since everyone is gearing up for the Loebners, the best thing you can do if you want to help is chat with as many bots as possible

To: Daedalus,
*innocent, sisterly* TACKLLLLLEEEEEEEE HUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGSSSSSS
(I am not going to cross a sacred line of love )

Thank you so much for checking out my site and signing my guest map!Do you know how many people have Im'ed me asking me where on earth is, when they are on the Interactive page? Somedays it is a complete joy to me to see someone who does need me to walk them through it step by step! Yeah for intelligence! Anyways, you are very kind and thank you so much for the compliments you really made my day! Best of luck to you and your beloved!