Have you met Suzette? If you have, you might not know it — because Suzette has passed the Turing Test. This chatbot convinced a judge that she was a human.
The Loebner Prize is given out every year for the machine that can fool a judge they’re talking to a person for the space of a conversation. The judge chats to both a human and a machine about a few subjects – such as “What is a hammer for?” – and at the end of the time period, the judge has to pick which is the bot. After a twenty-five minute conversation with Suzette, a judge picked wrong.
Suzette’s secret? Good, old-fashioned human manipulation. She diverted the conversation away from subjects she couldn’t keep up in, and stayed in her comfort zone. You can have a quick talk with Suzette here.
Via New Scientist.
poltak
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 6:41 PMIs the site not working for anyone else?
Actually sounds quite interesting :P
Steve
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 8:09 PMThe tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping.
Unimaginative
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 8:10 AMTime to die?
Jamie Carl
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 10:12 AMBecause I too, am a tortoise.
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Monday, November 22, 2010 at 9:32 PMBecause you’re a replicant damnit.
Damo
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 10:13 PMlink doesn’t seem to work
Kevin Russell
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 12:32 AMWhoa! That’s pretty cool, I didn’t think that they’d be able to do that for another few years at least.
unfazed
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 9:15 AMdidnt work for me so i abused suzette and left her some things to think about.
Mitch D
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 9:19 AMI got there, but she’s not talking. Must be her time of the month.
Jamie Carl
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 10:13 AMI chatted for a few mins. Took me about 30 seconds to catch it out as a bot. Who judges these things? 5 year old kids?
Zac
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 10:27 AMNice one lads!! You upset her and now she’s not talking to anyone!! WOW the program is that good just like the real thing!! :P
joe blogs
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 11:01 AMshe didnt pass the turing test, she was chosen as the chatter most likely to be human, when compared to a human that was pretending to be a robot.
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Monday, November 22, 2010 at 9:42 PMErm, that is a Turing test…
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Monday, November 22, 2010 at 9:43 PMSans the pretending to be a robot part…
pigsy101
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 7:42 PMIt’s a joke right? Seriously no one could be fooled by that. What was the judge? … another bot!??? ;-)
Signed.
HAL.
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Monday, November 22, 2010 at 9:41 PMWow, that bot is completely stupid – the test questions must be extremely narrow, because it failed for me pretty much immediately, and I wasn’t even trying to confuse it. And, if the testing is that narrow, it kind of falls short of the spirit of Turing’s paper.