Russian Chatbot Passes Turing Test (Sort of)

CurtMonash writes "According to Ina Fried, a chatbot is making the rounds that successfully emulates an easily-laid woman. As such, it dupes lonely Russian males into divulging personal and financial details at a rate of one every three minutes. All jokes aside — and a lot of them come quickly to mind — that sure sounds like the Turing Test to me. Of course, there are caveats. Reports of scary internet security threats are commonly overblown. There are some pretty obvious ways the chatbot could be designed to lessen its AI challenge by seeking to direct the conversation. And finally, while we are told the bot has fooled a few victims, we don't know its overall success rate at fooling the involuntary Turing "judges.""

All well and good...

[onion2k]

I'd rather have an easily-laid woman who can emulate a chat bot.

In fact, the chat bot side of things is wholly superfluous to what I want if I'm being honest.

In Soviet Russia

[the_skywise]

Chatbots screw you!

Bull

[dogger]

The problem being all the "Financial" details they got were grossly inflated figures to make the man look like a playa'

Old News...

[A beautiful mind]

This is old news for at least a few million people [youtube.com].

Re:In Soviet Russia

[Weirdbro]

But in America, you screw cha... wait, what?

Re:In Soviet Russia

[seanyboy]

I am interested in your Chatbots screw you. Do you want to see a photograph.

Eliza says-

[fatboy]

So tell me about Turing Test (Sort of).

Turing test extra credit

[Anonymous Coward]

Convince the examiner he's a computer.

http://xkcd.com/329/ [xkcd.com]

Obligatory Futurama reference

[neonux]

Russian guy: You're no easily-laid woman, you're a Fembot!
Fembot: It's true. I disguised myself as a easily-laid woman so I could rule the Russians.
Russian guy: But why?
Fembot: Why? Why? I came here from a faraway planet. A planet ruled by a chauvinistic Manputer that was really a Manbot. Have you any idea how it feels to be a Fembot living in a Manbot's Manputer's world?

They're chatbots?!

[El Yanqui]

I always assumed the easily laid women in chat rooms were just lonely, fat forty-year-old programmers indulging in their "curious" side. Fembots is a step up.

well duh!

[Anonymous Coward]

It was in Russian! You could put up some totally random Cyrillic characters and I couldn't tell it from a real human either!

Re:Old News...

[A beautiful mind]

What took you so long?

Re:WTF? This is not even a Turing test.

[weg]

Here's the definition according to the Hitchhiker's Guide [bbc.co.uk]:

A test for artificial intelligence suggested by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. The gist of it is that a computer can be considered intelligent when it can hold a sustained conversation with a computer scientist without him being able to distinguish that he is talking with a computer rather than a human being.

Some critics suggest this is unreasonably difficult since most human beings are incapable of holding a sustained conversation with a computer scientist.

After a moments thought they usually add that most computer scientists aren't capable of distinguishing humans from computers anyway.

Re:Who Loves You, Baby? Putin Loves You, Baby !!

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyope in Russia is commie? Putin czar, not commie. 1917 is again need. 2017? Too long?

Relation of Rasputin

Re:Jubii had such a robot

[evilviper]

Still, I'd be interested to see the code, and see how well it deals with non sequiturs.

I enjoy rhubarb.

As Q would say

[domatic]

"The Internet contains wonders to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the stupid."

Re:It's actually not as hard as you think.

[bot24]

I had similar issues with a bot I set up. I put it in an IRC chat room and it was great fun until it started repeating nasty insults it had overheard.

I deleted the database and fed it some other text to learn from. Interestingly, if you feed a chatbot the scripts of the Star Wars trilogy, it spews random nonsense whenever it types anything.

What I really need...

[raehl]

Is a chat bot that can convince women that I'm a rich, handsome, funny, intelligent well-endowed international businessman who models part-time.

Then I can run the bot, play Crysis and just show up at the right place and time on Saturday night.

Bonus points if convinced women are attractive.

Re:What I really need...

[Architect_sasyr]

Bonus points if convinced women are attractive.

Double Points if they don't run away when they see that I'm not

Re:All well and good...

[CeramicNinja]

I would rather have an easy-laid woman that doesn't chat at all.