On 16 July 2013 08:59, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> On 07/15/2013 08:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>> > >>> Devyn, > >>> > >>> 88888 Dihedral is our resident bot, not a human being. Nobody knows who > >>> controls it, and why they are running it, but we are pretty certain > that > >>> it is a bot responding mechanically to keywords in people's posts. > >>> > >>> It's a very clever bot, but still a bot. About one post in four is > >>> meaningless jargon, the other three are relevant enough to fool people > >>> into thinking that maybe it is a human being. It had me fooled for a > long > >>> time. > >>> > > > > Does this mean he passes the Turing test? > > Yes, absolutely. The original Turing test was defined in terms of five > minutes of analysis, and Dihedral and jmf have clearly been > indistinguishably human across that approximate period. >
The big difference between them is that the jmfbot does not appear to evolve its routines in response to external sources - it seems to be stuck in a closed feedback loop. Tim Delaney
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