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I made a computer pretend to be a computer that’s pretending to be a human

42 points| kp25 | 10 years ago |medium.com | reply

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[+] leviathan|10 years ago|reply
The patterns picked up by the training don't seem to offer too much variation than a simple Markov chain. The author finds the generated texts similar to a conversation, because that's what they're looking for. But they look just as random as simply selecting the next random word that comes after the current word from the training set.
[+] futuravenir|10 years ago|reply
Am I missing something? This reads like gobbledygook. I have a sneaking suspicion that this very post is made to seem legitimate/credible while I don't necessarily believe it is? My mind is exploding a little bit. I am confused. Am I? Hmm.
[+] jobigoud|10 years ago|reply
Other idea: make a computer that is good at finding whether a chat user is a human or a computer (A sort of Turing Test judge bot). Then use it as a fitness function to evolve a bot.

It's also what I don't like about the Turing Test, the core trait that is rewarded by the test is deceit.

[+] drdeca|10 years ago|reply
Well, it could still sorta pass even if it was up front about it kinda?

Just judge it based on "whether you would be able to tell if you didn't know"

[+] the_d00d|10 years ago|reply
"Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires. How avant garde. " Anne Rice anyone?