turing-test 4

Prove that you are human by picking 3 hot people. Interestingly, while I was able to pick women with 100% accuracy, I just couldn’t pick out hot men. I wonder if the women really can…

The NY Times on ‘captchas’. At the time of Turing, we were wondering if computers would pass the Turing Test. Today, these captchas stop computer programs from fooling us into thinking they’re humans. We’ve come a long way! via missing matter

Alicebot won the Turing test contest. I’ve chatted with quite a few Alicebots, such as Cybelle, or the one on the A.I. site. But they’re not too smart, as my conversation with Iniaes reveals. Other conversations are pretty similar. I should try downloading and building my own version of an Alicebot.

AOLiza continues. People still have conversations with a program in a chat room, without knowing it. Conversation 42, for example, is a fairly desperate 23-year old working in Starbucks, and…