Comments on: Do You Think Some Internet Users Are Actually Robots Or Artificial Intelligence?

By: joek1989

joek1989 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:50:08 +0000

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:05:09 +0000

well i ve visited some websites in which u can chat with some robots!

By: Margrave

Margrave — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:15:27 +0000

Back in the day when Yahoo Chat was a nice place, there was a microsoft-supporting bot named yazid 5000 who participated in discussions in the linux rooms.
I used to populate rooms with a couple of bots on IRC who were there to protect from exploits, by kicking/banning users who tried to flood or spam the room. It amused me to tie them in to some AI programs, some of which were obvious, and some of which could tell you that a play lasted two hours and you called a 16-year old girl a teenager. I even gave one a map with multiple levels and various routes and had it comment on the environment in a role-playing game (oh yes, the map was drawn on a moebius strip). And this was in like, 2000 when ThoughtTreasure was about the best of tthe AIs. I am sure there are better ones now, but I no longer have time to tinker.

By: Mercuri

Mercuri — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:39:24 +0000

That would be crazy, because that would mean someone actually passed the Turing Test (which has never been done and likely won’t be done for many years)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
Of course, I’m not counting “bots” that just spam message boards with ads and whatnot.