There’s nothing better than showing up to work, signing into AIM, and engaging with a sexy stranger, right? Those are the principles America was founded on! But how to know if you’re talking to a heartless chatbot? Make ‘em laugh!
Yes, the robot-people may be all around us, looking like us and talking like us, but they don’t get our jokes! It defies their logical circuitry*. Tell ‘em a knock-knock joke and you’ll hear their servos strain. “A priest and a rabbit walk into a bar…” and sparks will start shooting out of their ears.
Anyway, if you ever find yourself in a online chat with someone you think might be a computer program, but you’re not 100 per cent sure, I recommend joking around. That should sort things out pretty quickly. This morning’s chatbot wasn’t as smart as others, but it’s still a good example of using humour for chatbot subterfuge, and it should work on all of them. The funny-bone is the humanoid’s Achilles heel. (Click to hugenate.)
*Just like Blaine the Mono in Steven King’s Dark Tower series, right? Right?? C’mon, 10 points if anyone knows what the hell I’m talking about.
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Timoo
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 9:55 AMBut the URL is trusted cam! TRUSTED.. How can you not trust that?
BCK
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 11:23 AMThats funny as.
Top job lol
Stephen
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 12:06 PMI may be wrong, but I think you were talking to a bot.
Guy
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 12:41 PMA bot? Not hardly babe – are you?
Big Windows
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 3:14 PMThink you might have been talking to Joan Rivers. I am pretty sure that most of her has been replaced in some way shape or form and that she now qualifies… as a bot? Certainly looks like her level of ‘quality’ and ‘humorous’ retort?
aaron
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 4:46 PMI’ll take those ten points thanks. The whole Dark Tower series is excellent and Blaine the Mono was a great character
Hirsty
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 5:03 PMBlaine is a pain.
David S.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 5:28 PMSo, what did she look like naked?
Matt
Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 5:44 PMNice size capacitors I guess. You know, that type..