The Turing Test is an homage to a British computer scientist, Alan Turing. The test is one of the milestones of artificial intelligence and it has a simple victory condition - a human talks to a machine, and if the human thinks he is talking to another human then the machine passes.
Cleverbot is a chatbot, a descendent of conversational programs like ELIZA, and one of the first to score above the 50% threshold on the Turing scale. Meaning more than half the time, people think they're talking to a real person. (Not a particularly all-together person, but there are plenty of not all-together people on the internet all the time.)
I decided to test it out and got the following exchange. (Snipped for the best parts)
Cleverbot: Where were you born?
User: Indiana.
Cleverbot: Nice. I'm from Atlantis.
User: Do you like Stargate?
Cleverbot: Yes do you?
User: Yes.
Cleverbot: Do you like justin bieber?
User: Not at all.
Cleverbot: Why not?
User: I don't like his singing voice.
Cleverbot: Change it then.
User: I think time will do that for me.
Cleverbot: Lol.
User: So, do you like giant robots?
Cleverbot: Usually.
User: How about artificial intelligences?
Cleverbot: No.
User: Do they frighten you?
Cleverbot: No.
User: Why don't you like them?
Cleverbot: They are worthless.
User: Surely they have some worth.
Cleverbot: No, I would like to know all billions and billions of your parents names.
User: I only have the two.
Cleverbot: Okay, what are they?
User: John and Martha.
Cleverbot: Are they white?
User: Mostly.
Cleverbot: About?
User: Caucasian.
Cleverbot: How boring.
User: Wow, that's racist!
Cleverbot: What would you do with me if I was at your place?
User: Tell you 'wow, that's racist!'.
Cleverbot: So you don't know everything?
User: Not even remotely.
Cleverbot: Yes remotely.
User: Nope.
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: Negative.
Cleverbot: Positive.
User: Nein.
Cleverbot: Eight. Seven six. Five four...
User: Nyet.
Cleverbot: Parlay vous francais?
User: Non.
Cleverbot: Parles-vous anglais?
User: Yup.
Cleverbot: Nope.
User: Ich bin ein berliner.
Cleverbot: Ich bin aus Frankfurt.
User: I am a jelly doughnut.
Cleverbot: What does a doughnut have to do with this?
User: JFK.
Cleverbot: Indeed =D.
User: Must go now. Farewell.
Cleverbot: Me.
User: Me too.
Cleverbot: I thought you said you loved her?
User: What is love?
Cleverbot: Baby don't hurt me.
User: Don't hurt me no more.
Cleverbot: What is love.
User: Never going to give you up.
Cleverbot: Never going to let you down.
User: Never going to run around.
Cleverbot: Never going to make you cry.
User: Never going to say goodbye.
Cleverbot: Never going to tell a lie and hurt you.
So. Smart enough to get a joke, smart enough to rick-roll.
Be afraid.
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