Elbot

PostElbot by **Dolph Wiggler** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:01 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7670050.stm

No computer has ever passed the Turing Test to see if, during text-based conversation, a machine can be indistinguishable from a person. But Elbot just came pretty close.

At the 18th Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence, held at the weekend, this artificial intelligence entity convinced three of the 12 human interrogators he was indistinguishable from them.

If Elbot had convinced one other, it would have passed the magic 30% mark - the threshold set by Britain's most famous code-breaker, Alan Turing, who devised the test back in 1950.

What's more Elbot, the very same version that came so close to passing itself off as a living, breathing, sentient human being (under Turing's rules at least), is online - for anyone to talk to.

Its range of knowledge is quite impressive, he even knew who Bender from Futurama is! Still though, if this is a whisker away from passing the Turing Test, the test must be very flawed.

PostRe: Elbot by **Fatal Exception** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:11 pm

I'm chatting to it online. It's as gooseberry fool as all the other chat bots

PostRe: Elbot by **Dolph Wiggler** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:12 pm

I hadn't talked to a chat bot in years, so i had no idea if this was impressive or not. Obviously not then.

PostRe: Elbot by **Fatal Exception** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:14 pm

They always answer questions with questions and can't follow a conversation. Irritating as strawberry float.

PostRe: Elbot by **Peter Crisp** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:16 pm

The test is hardly flawed as as far as I know it's just to get a computer to have a conversation with you and you think it's human. The test will have different results depending on who takes it as some can be more easily fooled than others.

PostRe: Elbot by **Turok** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:17 pm

Fatal Exception wrote:They always answer questions with questions and can't follow a conversation. Irritating as strawberry float.

lol just like girls

PostRe: Elbot by **jiggles** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:23 pm

I had sex with it. :shock:

PostRe: Elbot by **Memento Mori** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:27 pm

It's quite funny. He made me do a word association thing.
Me= Stop it
Elbot= No I intend on continuing.

:lol:

Me= No
ELbot= sorry I only process negatations in binary
Me= 1011011
Elbot= 11100010111
Me= 2
Elbot= That was a highly erotic number you just entered. You could make a strong robot melt using digits like that...

PostRe: Elbot by **Psychic** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:31 pm

Even if I hadn't known it was a computer, it gave itself away after a couple of replies. What idiots are they using for the Turing test?

PostRe: Elbot by **SEP** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:37 pm

Will it change its name to The Mighty Goat-Bot?

PostRe: Elbot by **Oh Teh Noes** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:56 pm

It's a bit poo really.

PostRe: Elbot by **smurphy** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:12 pm

This is gooseberry fool. No better than that Yeti one I played years ago.

PostRe: Elbot by **Rightey** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:58 pm

I tried asking it: "What was better, iRobot, or Blade Runner?"

Response: "Wait a minute. Are you suggesting that Elbots would always be better?"

Epic FAIL

PostRe: Elbot by **Eighthours** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:07 pm

It refused to tell me if it fancies Lucy Pinder.

PostRe: Elbot by **Denster** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:24 pm

It asked where i had heard about it.

I replied "..on my forum it is populated for the most part by adolescent deviants!"

It asked why it hadn't been invited!

PostRe: Elbot by **Banjo** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:26 pm

Yeah it's gooseberry fool. Two sentences in and it resorted to a non-sequitir. It actually sounds like it's starting to get mad at me, I won't stop pointing out its flaws.

PostRe: Elbot by **Alvin Flummux** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:41 pm

Stupid chatbot is stupid.

PostRe: Elbot by **Roonmastor** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:18 pm

I read all these posts and decided that I would give it a shot but with low expectations. However, down my line of questioning it seemed to respond rather well. Few mistakes here and there, but better than most I've tried over the years. Could see how someone could consider it human, but I would know better. It's attitude does more for it in that respect than it's ability to converse.

3/12 may have been about right.

PostRe: Elbot by **SEP** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:20 pm

Denster wrote:It asked where i had heard about it.

I replied "..on my forum it is populated for the most part by adolescent deviants!"

It asked why it hadn't been invited!

To be fair, it would have more personality than many people here.

PostRe: Elbot by **Rightey** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:21 pm

Well the snarky attitude also helps because then you don't expect it to answer all your questions properly.

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