http://blog.oup.com/2012/03/chatbot-computers-turing/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2012/03/chatbot-computers-turing/#comment-279500 OUPblog » Blog Archive » Turing : the irruption of Materialism into thought Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:30:41 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=22647#comment-279500 [...] Turing doesn’t countenance any special pleading for human reason. He argues with his famous Turing Test that the same criteria that we use to impute intelligence and consciousness to other human beings [...] [...] Turing doesn’t countenance any special pleading for human reason. He argues with his famous Turing Test that the same criteria that we use to impute intelligence and consciousness to other human beings [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2012/03/chatbot-computers-turing/#comment-279403 OUPblog » Blog Archive » Maurice Wilkes on Alan Turing Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:30:59 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=22647#comment-279403 [...] thrilled by the paper he wrote in Mind ["Computing Machinery and Intelligence," which described the Turing Test to measure the intelligence of computers]. I have long felt that Turing, would, if he had lived, [...] [...] thrilled by the paper he wrote in Mind ["Computing Machinery and Intelligence," which described the Turing Test to measure the intelligence of computers]. I have long felt that Turing, would, if he had lived, [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2012/03/chatbot-computers-turing/#comment-261017 Archie R Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:16:40 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=22647#comment-261017 The chatbot "Me" fails the Turing test. The User, Jaberwacky, tries to engage it with the Philippines, cats, philosophy ("We could all be a figment of imagination..."), and religion, but chatbot Me keeps talking in its narrow field of computers. User iGod playfully pretends to be a computer as well, eventually asking the insightful question, "Who else would save my car and not my mother?" But chatbot Me doesn't understand that all other humans would choose to save the fellow human. User ALICE keeps trying to talk about feelings, but chatbot Me can't respond outside of its narrow field of conversation. The chatbot “Me” fails the Turing test. The User, Jaberwacky, tries to engage it with the Philippines, cats, philosophy (“We could all be a figment of imagination…”), and religion, but chatbot Me keeps talking in its narrow field of computers.
User iGod playfully pretends to be a computer as well, eventually asking the insightful question, “Who else would save my car and not my mother?” But chatbot Me doesn’t understand that all other humans would choose to save the fellow human.
User ALICE keeps trying to talk about feelings, but chatbot Me can’t respond outside of its narrow field of conversation.

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