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A really crazy idea...
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:41 pm
by RyanHoots
I just got (another) crazy idea.
What if we had a member on this forum, who wasn't a person, but not a spambot? A person-bot. Like Data from Star Trek TNG. I don't know how it would be done, but it would be kinda funny to have a bot user who actually seemed like a real human, but in reality was just a program that would "read" text and run it though its database, and respond if he wanted to. Of course, he would probably be a know-it-all... 
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:23 pm
by Smivs
Smivs looks out for any new members called
Watson
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:30 pm
by Cmdr James
aManFromMars
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:55 am
by Capt. Murphy
Ahh, RyanHoots experimental AI construct trying to throw us off the scent again.
Maybe I need to go back
on standy...oops....erm....to bed.
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:05 pm
by RyanHoots
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:20 pm
by Capt. Murphy
Don't panic - it was a throw away comment.
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:29 pm
by RyanHoots
Capt. Murphy wrote:Don't panic - it was a throw away comment.
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:17 pm
by SandJ
Smivs wrote:Smivs looks out for any new members called
Watson
Does anyone else remember the program on the DEC PDP-11 that answered questions?
Was it LISA? Edit: No, it was
ELIZA.
We used to chat to her back in 1984/85 and she was already a good few years old.
She would ask open questions, and based upon your answer, respond appropriately then ask another open question.
At the time she was mildly amusing, and a good demonstration of how software could have a go at the Turing Test, if only we knew how to analyse natural language.
"Just 10 more years" said the computer scientists "and computers will understand English."
The senior lecturer said "They told us that in the late 1950s and it wasn't true then either." Over 50 years later and nothing much has changed...
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:00 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Didn't the Gadget show feature a chat-bot last season - it wasn't very good...
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:33 am
by Rxke
http://cleverbot.com/ is sometimes impressively good.
More often hilariously/depressingly bad....
I started asking how he/it was...
How are you?
I'm good how are you?
Pretty good, thank you.
Can you give me a cookie?
A flash cookie?
Why are you calling me a cookie?
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:00 pm
by RyanHoots
I asked cleverbot if he plays Oolite. He said:
Offending! 
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:07 pm
by Rxke
Cleverbot is a Thargoid!
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:41 pm
by Cmdr Wyvern
I remember a Santa chatbot MS "borrowed" (read, blatantly pirated) one year.
All was going well till it was discovered "Santa" would openly admit being a drug abuser and gay pedophile. Oh dear! To say MS was embarrassed was an understatement; "Santa" didn't last a week before it was pulled.
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:47 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Cmdr Wyvern wrote:I remember a Santa chatbot MS "borrowed" (read, blatantly pirated) one year.
All was going well till it was discovered "Santa" would openly admit being a drug abuser and gay pedophile. Oh dear! To say MS was embarrassed was an understatement; "Santa" didn't last a week before it was pulled.
I remember that!
(
http://www.aihub.org/modules.php?name=N ... le&sid=254)
Re: A really crazy idea...
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:53 pm
by Cmdr Wyvern
DaddyHoggy wrote:Cmdr Wyvern wrote:I remember a Santa chatbot MS "borrowed" (read, blatantly pirated) one year.
All was going well till it was discovered "Santa" would openly admit being a drug abuser and gay pedophile. Oh dear! To say MS was embarrassed was an understatement; "Santa" didn't last a week before it was pulled.
I remember that!
(
http://www.aihub.org/modules.php?name=N ... le&sid=254)
I read about it in the original Reg article.
The commentators discovered the santabot was pirated, by finding it's homepage which had nothing to do with MSN. Then they went on testing it for the lols, just to see how much a pottymouth "Santa" could be; "Santa" did indeed talk about smoking pot and crack, and doing the deed with little boys.
I believe the phrase "epic fail" fits perfectly.
