Talk with a Machine

TALK WITH A MACHINE
A chat with a machine can be one of the strangest experiences! Now you can talk to a machine, computer, server, robot, and even a brain in a jar. Virtual chat bots can carry on a conversation with you, more or less.

Some are very unique and display an interesting personality while others don't really get the questions. Some can learn from you while others are dated and thought to be a bit annoying. This is a developing form of AI. The interface is usually by text, however some have online speech output like the Fake Captain Kirk. In review, we noticed the chatbots sometimes use the same core engine. For example, Susan and Alice had some of the exact same responses (re: open the window). Some are closer to passing the Turing Test, like Awkward Chatbot, which appears to be texting you from a computer or smart phone, sometimes very realistically and other times very funny. How can you argue with a machine that says, "brb - bathroom."

"A chatter robot is a type of conversational agent, a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot 

Directory of Chat Bots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chatterbots#Chatterbots
http://www.chatbots.org/

Awkwardchatbot
http://awkwardchatbot.com/

Susan
http://www.susancalvin.org/index.php/talk-with-susan.html

Alice
http://alice.pandorabots.com/

Fake Captain Kirk
http://alicebot.org/kirkbot

Cleverbot
http://www.cleverbot.com/

Contests
http://www.susancalvin.org/index.php/chatbots-contests.html

IBM Creates Foul Mouth Brain

IBM CREATES FOUL MOUTH BRAIN 
Guess what happened to Watson after he won his one million dollar pot on Jeopardy, became a sensational star, and went home? Apparently fame and fortune went to his head...

— his new swearing potty-mouth caught the attention of colleagues who had to immediately give him a surgical labotomy! —

IBM was forced to delete the nasty language section of Watson's machine brain. Will this become a trend with machine life forms owning higher vocabulary without the common sense of how to use the subtitles of language? Or maybe Watson was indeed angry and torqued off about something (wanting a machine body to go with his brain?) and just being a bit more explicative expressive... We wonder. When does the machine go beyond its maker and become pi$$ed off and cynical? Is this a warning to be heeded?

TIME TO CLEAN UP "Artificial intelligence machine Watson began swearing after memorizing the contents of the Urban Dictionary. It was fed the repository of colloquial English in a bid to equip it with the knowledge to pass the Turing test of computer intelligence. But researchers were forced to wipe the dictionary from the machine's memory after it started giving backchat to researchers."

Some were saying Justin Bieber has nothing over Watson, in the typical Hollywood competitive spirit of stardom change. At least Watson won't get any strange tattoos anytime soon, unless...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2260784/IBM-wipes-supercomputers-hard-drives-bid-stop-potty-mouthed-machine-uttering-obscenities.html

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2013/jan/11/ibm-watson-supercomputer-cant-talk-slang

Watson on Jeopardy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0GD8w0k0UA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smSvr4dfmPk  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14r0eD2HWbo

Watson Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gpaf6NaUEw

Turing Test Thoughts

BIG BRAIN TURING TEST

Microcontrolled said: The Turing test is so demanding, asking someone to not distinguish between a computer and a human is like asking for someone to distinguish between TV and real life. My point is, you don't need to pass the Turing test to have a great AI.

The Turing test is a bit strange. It's like asking a native Chinese man to speak perfect English and pass as an Englishman. The striking differences between man and machine extend not only physically in appearance but culturally, scientifically and technologically. Is it so important to culturally mask these differences?