[ExI] siri isn't quite there yet... but goostman is...

spike spike66 at att.net
Tue Jun 10 15:00:32 UTC 2014


 

 

>… On Behalf Of Adam A. Ford
Subject: Re: [ExI] siri isn't quite there yet...

 

>…But seriously, if any are interested, I did a video interview with Ben Goertzel on the recent 'passing' of the Turing Test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OfaGTwbiI

 

>…Related article at H+ Magazine: http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/06/09/what-does-chatbot-eugene-goostmans-success-on-the-turing-test-mean/


>…Kind regards, Adam A. Ford



Thanks Adam.

 

Ben and I are asking two completely different questions for completely different reasons.  As an AI researcher, Ben’s interest focuses on the questions of whether these kinds of programs are intelligent.  That question leads us back to Turing’s original hypothesis: if software can convince humans it is human, then we must define it as intelligent.  As software advances, we have kept moving the goalposts, making the test harder, for it is easy enough to imagine software which can pass that Turing’s criterion, but is still just a pile of code, each line completely understandable, no magic functions.  We humans are just not ready to admit that we are just a pile of code, that our brains are just a really cool machine, with no magic functions.  I have accepted that idea a long time ago, for it enables a number of wonderful insights, and may lead one to embrace such wacky notions as cryonics.

 

My focus is on using tools such as Watson and Goostman for educating children, keeping company to lonely elderly, helping doctors, that sort of thing.  These kinds of applications would cause money to come flowing into the pockets of the developers, causing investors to take notice, and as soon as that happens everything changes: smart people spend time thinking of how to improve the product, it spreads like neutrinos from a supernova, and suddenly it’s a new day, a really interesting cool new day.

 

That being said, we have Goostman now, and it works on a PC or any ordinary computer, and I NEED it right NOW because I have an elderly relative who could benefit NOW so where can I buy it?  Honestly I don’t care if it passes Turing’s test.  If it fooled a third of sophisticated judges, it can easily pass as a human to impaired and richly deserving lonely patients, and I do mean RIGHT NOW, so where can I buy it and can I buy a beta version or a knockoff, and where are the commerce-minded researchers on the Goostman team who know how the thing works who are setting up their own companies to make a pile of money, because I will be one of her first customers, even if the thing fails to fool 2/3 of the judges, but please hurry please hurry, our time is short and the need is great.

 

spike

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