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13 Dec 2007, 6:27 pm

http://www.bigpond.com/news/technology/ ... 118477.asp

Hoo boy. Internet chat just got a whole lot more dangerous. Never give out details on chat again.


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13 Dec 2007, 6:55 pm

Just as well I don't use chat rooms!

That's like smarterchild@msn.com or hotmail.com or whatever it is. That thing annoys me, it's a bot. I got it stuck so it kept repeating itself ongoing once, hahahahahaha... brilliant.


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13 Dec 2007, 7:07 pm

Read about this this morning,

Not that surprising, The program probably does not need to pass the Turing test.
I have seen programs that can fool me completely that I am exchanging with a person (but I am quite easy to fool).


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13 Dec 2007, 7:17 pm

What is the point of that?



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13 Dec 2007, 8:18 pm

:lol:

(Sorry.)

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13 Dec 2007, 8:28 pm

The cheek of that bloody Russian. "It isn't illegal if it is given voluntarily." Betcha money he works for the Russian Mafia.


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13 Dec 2007, 8:34 pm

It's just what every aspie guy needs, an automated Christian to speak for his Cyrano. :wink:


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14 Dec 2007, 12:49 am

I was reading an article in Scientific American: Mind about some guy that got duped by a computer through email exchanges for a few months. It was pretty funny stuff. Eventually of course, the penny dropped. But it got photo's out of him and a bit of personal information (apparently just emotional stuff, not security risk stuff) but still... a computer?

A link to the article summary here.



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14 Dec 2007, 1:49 am

Geez.

First the "Josh" incident.

Now this.

All we need now is "HAL" and we're set.


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14 Dec 2007, 2:03 am

I'm sorry Gamester, I'm afraid we can't do that...


well, not yet anyhow.. I'm sure AI theory will improve in the future though...



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14 Dec 2007, 9:48 am

Yikes! Goes to show how far AI has come. 8O

talking about AI, I remember reading somewhere that the first conscious, human-level intelligence AI would possibly similar to High-functioning autistics or aspies.


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15 Dec 2007, 10:21 pm

I think it must do better than I. And I am easily fooled too. I believe everyone even medical care providers who want me working on TOP of 14 foot ladders with power tools and bulky fixtures while having too much vertigo to stand up. Things are already being plugged in brains, maybe there will be social software someday. Will it be to help or to control?


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16 Dec 2007, 5:29 pm

What I find amusing is that a Russian programmer is better at talking to women (and men) in his SECOND language than I am in my first.



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17 Dec 2007, 2:54 pm

be nice to plug it in when needed and remove it


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