[ExI] New Improved Turing Test was: Subject: The answer to tireless stupidity

[Omar Rahman]

Spkie, 

This is brilliant.  You've just set up the scenario for a new and improved Turing test. Why improved? It basically fulfills the Turing test....but potentially serves a reproductive purpose thereby influencing evolution. Well done sir!

Regards,

Omar Rahman

P.S.	 Time to think up some super sexy code to attract post-singularity mates!




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>> Subject: [ExI] The answer to tireless stupidity
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>> Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense... Jeff Davis
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> Actually this application would be a pointless waste of perfectly good
> technology. 
> 
> Consider the online lonely hearts club.  There are places on the web (and
> the usenets before that, and DARPAnet even before that) where lonely hearts
> would hang out and make small talk.  A really useful application of a
> chatbot would be to have it mines one's own writings and produce an enormous
> lookup table, which it would then use to perform all the tedious,
> error-prone and emotionally hazardous early stages of online seduction.  As
> soon as the other party agrees to meeting for, um, stimulating conversation
> (and so forth), then the seductobot would alert the user, who then reads
> over what the bot has said to the perspective contact.
> 
> Of course, the other party might also have set up a seduct-o-matic to do the
> same thing.
> 
> Similarly to Jeff's example, it might soon become very difficult to
> distinguish two humans trying to get each other into the sack from two
> lookup tables doing likewise.  As soon as actual creativity or innovation is
> seen in the mating process, we know it must be a chatbot, for humans have
> discovered nothing essentially new in that area since a few weeks after some
> adventurous pair of protobonobos first discovered copulation. 
> 
> spike