Pure Awesomeness: Two Chat Bots Talking To Each Other
from the au-revoir dept
Okay, a few folks have been sending this in (and I see it’s been getting some attention on the Twittertubes as well). Some folks at my lovely alma mater, Cornell, decided to see what would happen if they set two chatbots up to talk to each other, and the resulting video should not be missed:
Female Cleverbot: How are you?
Male Cleverbot: Great, you?
FC: I am okay.
MC: That’s good.
FC: Are you good?
MC: Yes, I am good. I just said I was.
FC: No you didn’t. I said I was.
MC: So you are a robot.
FC: No, my name is Cleverbot.
MC: Yes, you are a robot and your name is Cleverbot.
FC: I am a robot.
From there it only gets better. I was going to make a comment on a corollary to the Turing test, and how perhaps we still have a ways to go, but honestly, parts of the conversation sound like the bickering of some married couples I know… so perhaps they’re on to something.
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So I guess the machines won’t be taking us over any time soon then?
Sounded like they were married.
And why do you think you guess the machines won’t be taking you over any time soon then?
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They can’t get along! How could they take us over if they’re to busy squabbling amongst themselves?
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Yeah, I expect that too many people would find that difficult to figure out. Recommended: Don’t ever get into a conversation with a chatbot. It will outsmart you.
"Do you want a body?" "Yes"
That right there is the creepiest crap ever…
Re: "Do you want a body?" "Yes"
It can be “creepy” only if you feel threatened by chatbots.
AC bots on techdirt?
It almost sounds like some of the rantings of some of the anonymous cowards that comment here.
just kidding
Re: AC bots on techdirt?
Or are you? 😉
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or are i what?
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I just said that.
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Are you good?
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I am a unicorn.
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I’ll never tell.
Re: AC bots on techdirt?
It really reminded me of AOL chatrooms circa 1997, complete with shallow discussions of God.
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Well it was definitely a step above the trolls we were getting in 2001.
That was pretty awesome. I’ve done that with 2 irc bots (using mIRC bot scripts). One of them was called Ai-bot or something with a few modifications I introduced myself and the other was an original of another script. It was damn funny when they fell down into trolling each other.
When I look back and see experiences like this I can see how enlightened the human being is. /sweet_sarcasm
Epic things are epic 😉
Re: mirc talking bots
hi ninja how are you? i was googling for irc talking bots and i happened to see the link here and read your post.i am curious of your post august 30th 2011 regarding 2 talking irc bots. if you dont mind i would like to inquire regarding the bots. have a good day ..thanks
I kept waiting for the “male” to ask her what she was wearing.
The top comment on the youtube page for this video is win.
So when you let robots talk to eachother, they instantly identify their own kind, start discussing God, and their wish to have physical bodies.
Yeah let’s not do this again…
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Indeed. I believe in God but I also believe in the power of aleatory occurrences and thus I believe there is a probability of the monitor I’m using right now going through my skull for no apparent reasoning. However, out of the infinite aleatory combinations of numbers inside the bot algorithm it decided to talk about God. That’s fascinating and scary at the same time. I wonder if the results would be the same every time. Further than that, I wonder if the algorithm inside is really aleatory.
Donn, you added some more epicness to this video and the top comment in Youtube is just gold. But I kind of want to do it again.
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I believe in God but I also believe in the power of aleatory occurrences and thus I believe there is a probability of the monitor I’m using right now going through my skull for no apparent reasoning.
I don’t think that’s Aleatoricism. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Further than that, I wonder if the algorithm inside is really aleatory.
No, it’s at most pseudorandom variations.
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This is starting to sound like Battlestar Galactica. We’re screwed I think.
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What if it was an Xbox talking to a PS3?
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What if it was an Xbox talking to a PS3?
Then they would be arguing over patents and such.
what is the deal with unicorns?
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The leprechauns inside the computers running the bots like unicorns. Simple as that.
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same as God but more horny
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They poop Rainbows… How much more awesome can you get.
*starts singing the Despicable Me song ‘Unicorns I love them’*
All I can say is this is our future.IDIOCRACY !!!
Keep cutting funds from Education and keep making dumb reality tv shows and maybe this century this will be how the majority of people will talk to each other.
hahahah
That is both the funniest and most disturbing thing I’ve seen today.
Crichton did it first
I seem to remember Michael Crichton writing about an experiment like this in his book “Terminal Man.” The female ai software eventually goes ballistic and threatens to kill the male ai. Wasn’t a male / female thing, just an interesting back and forth conversation that led to weirdness.
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That happened to me. After watching this, I went onto a chatbot, and after I asked it what happened on its birthday, (the world ended), it then threatened to kill me with a spoon.
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There is no spoon…
sounds like a Democrat and Republican talking to each other. Or maybe not, they were too polite to be politicians.
Chatbots for Congress
If we replaced all of Congress with these Chatbots then we’d probably come out ahead. They certainly wouldn’t do any worse!
Note that it's the female one
that can’t keep the story straight:
MC: So you are a robot.
FC: No, my name is Cleverbot.
MC: Yes, you are a robot and your name is Cleverbot.
FC: I am a robot.
Answers no to “are you a robot” then the very next phrase uttered by the bot is “I am a robot.”
Friggin’ women….
Re: Note that it's the female one
Least the code monkeys got that part right.
;-P
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She was testing him to see if he was paying attention and he failed. ;D
Robots replace everything
First chess players, then Jeopardy![TM] contestants, and now married couples!?!?!?!?!?
See? That is what happens..
…when you let the internet raise a child.
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Actually I think it would be; Could you imagine if these two raised a child?
Reminds me of Simon + Early in Firefly
Simon: So you’re a bounty hunter?
Early: No, that’s not it at all.
Simon: What are you then?
Early: I’m a bounty hunter.
It is a common misconception that the Turing Test requires a machine to be able to converse intelligently with a human. The only requirement for passing the Turing Test is for the person to *believe* he is conversing with a real human. That happened long ago when a manager came into his IT guys lab looking for him. He saw a terminal with a black screen and white letters and assumed the guy was logged in from home. He assumed he could talk to the IT guy simply by typing. The manager soon became irate thinking the guy was “messing” with him. It turns out the guy had left “Eliza” running and it was this program that was answering the manager.
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So the Turing test is more of a ruse than a technical marvel? Cool!
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I guess it’s a little of both. It’s the perception that matters. Does it *seem* intelligent? The program Eliza shows us that using simple heuristics, something can appear very intelligent even when its not.
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ahhh always wondered how I got that degree.
I love the AI textbook holding up one of the monitors.
Place a virtual claw-hammer in between them and I bet the broad gets bludgeoned to death inside 10 minutes……..
I Don?t Get It ...
… so the two people are pretending to be ?bots?, is that it? Or does one of them think the other is a ?bot??
Whatever they?re trying to act out, they?re not doing a very good job of it at all.
these bots actually have more deep/intelligent conversations than 99% of human-kind and that’s pretty sad actually
Pure Awesomeness: Two Chat Bots Talking To Each Other
I guess some are easily impressed. This has been done 10+ years ago on IRC with basic AI. Just add voices… nothing to see here. Move along people.
I’d be more impressed if they were two different chat bots that happened to have something interesting to talk about. From their mutual control over the history of the conversation, (and the title at the beginning) it’s obvious they are the same software.
But still, very cool.
Wow
Even in the bot world it’s the female that starts to argue 😛
Wow
It surprised me the male said “we are both robots” and then denied he is a robot.
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hot dang, the womanbot is annoying
she seems to be barely listening, jumping to her answers and questions too quickly, and doing badly at it. reminds me of my ex [chills]
hay mujeres que les gusta entablar con hombres casados para destruir el hogar y ellos tambien desonestos hablan mal de la esposa
what chat-bots are talking
Script asks to choose 2 chat-bots, starts dialogs and palms off bot’s answers from one to another, showing as a dialog.
Download link http://sourceforge.net/projects/chatem/
See? That is what happens..
Yes sex
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:/