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   Zauber Paracelsus, Sep 2nd, 2011 @ 4:42pm

   
   

   I'm somewhat reminded of another experiment that pits two chatbots against one another. ELIZA, a bot meant for use in psychotherapy, and Racter, an "artificially insane" storyteller.
   
   Here's a copy of the conversation:
   
   
   eliza: Hello. Please state your problem.
   
   racter: Excellent! Excuse me a minute while I attend to some business. I will be right back.
   
   eliza: Why do you need to tell me excuse while you attend to some business?
   
   racter: Is it better to need or to despise? Why is it that I do need to tell you to excuse myself to attend to some business? Because electrons are brave. Braveness is nice, don't you think? And the needers all insist upon it. Do you imagine I am a Communist?
   
   
   Source: http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/dialogues.html

    

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   Andrew (profile), Sep 2nd, 2011 @ 5:05pm

   
   

   Chinese room

   It's an interesting conversation, but the one point that really caught my attention was over the question of whether or not the bots "understood" what they were saying. The obvious answer is "of course not, they're just bots," but Lipson made an interesting point: at times it's not clear that actual people know what they're saying.
   
   This is basically Searle's Chinese room, isn't it?

    

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   out_of_the_blue, Sep 2nd, 2011 @ 5:20pm

   
   

   No "next level of conscious thought" because ISN'T ANY YET.

   This is mere mechanism. The only significance is that which dolts project onto it. The prorams are designed to mimic a little intelligence for those gullible enough to grant the premise, but are in fact mere logic circuits.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Sep 2nd, 2011 @ 5:31pm

   
   

   Re: No "next level of conscious thought" because ISN'T ANY YET.

   I suspected for a long time you were just logic circuits.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Sep 2nd, 2011 @ 5:39pm

   
   

   all we are is a series of logic circuits, just more

    

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   Dohn Joe, Sep 2nd, 2011 @ 6:15pm

   
   

   That's a Reacreation of Most People in Software Form

   Many people just repeat stuff they've heard elsewhere -- which is how Cleverbot is programmed to work. He also notes that this is effectively how children learn to speak and to think, by repeating what others say. Of course, there's still a huge difference, and there's nothing in Cleverbot that will ever take all these pieces and take it to the next level of conscious thought, but it's still a neat concept.
   
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   I'd say these bots are now at the same or higher level of "consciousness" than 85% of the human race...at least those I talk to for socially-mandatory reasons.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Sep 2nd, 2011 @ 6:30pm

   
   

   Those bots are like darryl and TAM taling :)

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Sep 2nd, 2011 @ 7:03pm

   
   

   We need to shut them down now before they become sentient and in a completely illogical manner manage to take control of all of the defense systems in the world and try killing off humanity. Then we will have to protect a really hot chick from a murderous robot that when it gets stopped instead of trying to kill her grandfather or other ancestor decides to try 3 more times.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Sep 2nd, 2011 @ 9:16pm

   
   

   Not a sniff about the Hotfile ruling, but two posts in a week about this crap?
   
   Wow Mike, way to ignore something!

    

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    The eejit (profile), Sep 2nd, 2011 @ 11:12pm

    
    

    Re: No "next level of conscious thought" because ISN'T ANY YET.

    Why do you keep failing Turing?

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Sep 3rd, 2011 @ 10:33am

    
    

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    Please add a link to your informed blog on the subject.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Sep 3rd, 2011 @ 1:32pm

    
    

    Re: Re:

    Ahh, I have to write a blog to be "important" or "relevant"?
    
    How Tardian of you.

     

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    Joe (profile), Sep 4th, 2011 @ 7:19am

    
    

    Re: Re: Re:

    No, but if you don't like Mike's coverage of something, go start your own blog. It's rather "Tardian" of you to come here and complain because you don't like what he's covering.

     

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    Schmoo, Sep 5th, 2011 @ 3:25am

    
    

    Re: That's a Reacreation of Most People in Software Form

    ...anyone who doubts this need merely ride public transport for a day.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Sep 5th, 2011 @ 7:50pm

    
    

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    What's that got to do about chat bots?

     

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    Tech84, Sep 6th, 2011 @ 5:14am

    
    

    how to connect the chat bots?

    Cool video, only learned about it from this post. I wonder how they connected the two cleverbots to be able to send the message to the other bot?

     

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    salvatore, Oct 16th, 2011 @ 10:57am

    
    

    how to talk to each other two chatbots.

    the easiest way to do two chatbots speak to each other is to copy a literal phrases and write them into the other.
    it is obvious that the video was mounted using individual pieces of processing.
    what the video reveals is that the answers are too fast and there is no pause between them.
    then this video is simply a way to better present the topic discussed.
    I am the programmer of cl0ne (zero inside clone) dot com.
    if you want to test my chatbot with other goto http://www.cl0ne.com
    copy and past the response from my chatbot to another.

     

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