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Since 1990, the $100,000 Loebner prize has been left sitting on the table, patiently waiting for a computer program to come along that’s capable of carrying on a conversation indistinguishable from a conversation with a human. So far, no program has even been able to claim the $25,000 silver prize, which would be awarded to a program that can fool just two judges in the Loebner panel that it’s human. So robots can’t fool people. But can they fool other chatbots? Cornell decided to put that question to the test, to hilarious results.
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Cornell's Creative Machines Lab put two chatbots mano-a-mano in a robochat death match of slightly less than epic proportions, the IEEE Spectrum reports. The conversation starts off well, but quickly devolves into inane accusations of robot-hood, circular logic, religious beliefs and fantasy creature name-dropping. Our favorite exchange between the two bots:
“I am not a robot. I am a unicorn.”
“But you said earlier you were a robot.”
“I did not.”
“I thought you did.”
“You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn’t be a problem for you.”
Watch the video above for even more hilarity!
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darthgriffin
August 30, 2011 at 11:33am
Name calling, fantasy characters and talking in circles? Yep, that sounds like every conversation about god I've been subjected to. Maybe they're doing a better job of imitating humans than we're giving them credit for.
wrldqueeek
August 30, 2011 at 9:40am
That was great.
It is getting better though, I'm pretty sure I know some people who sound just like that. :P
don2041
August 29, 2011 at 4:14pm
They should not have let the chatbots smoke all that BC bud ,that way they would,nt sound like a couple of stoned potheads
joejoe347
August 29, 2011 at 2:31pm
I think the problem with clever bot is that it gets all of its input from interneters who want to talk to it about unicorns, if its inpiut was the every day person I think it would be a lot less weird.
green0ne
August 29, 2011 at 12:49pm
If a chatbot convinces a human to give it $25,000 then they should definitely be able to keep it. I wonder what they would buy... hmm... a Unicorn, maybe?
Teeebs
August 29, 2011 at 12:14pm
Seems to have a bit of a Monty Pythonesque quality to it at times....lol
d3v
August 29, 2011 at 11:52am
This is pretty good actually. Robots discussing God for instance :) But I think if they kept it up they'd be at each others digital throats.
Nyarlathotep
August 29, 2011 at 11:46am
I wouldn't have thought computers would speak in double negatives.
TerribleToaster
August 29, 2011 at 10:17am
This is better then when Cleverbot assured me that I was a kind of sentient cancer.
