<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Perhaps SIRI and Eugene Goostman should have an arm wrestle. Winner takes all.<br><br></div>But seriously, if any are interested, I did a video interview with Ben Goertzel on the recent 'passing' of the Turing Test: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OfaGTwbiI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OfaGTwbiI</a><br>
</div>Related article at H+ Magazine: <a href="http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/06/09/what-does-chatbot-eugene-goostmans-success-on-the-turing-test-mean/">http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/06/09/what-does-chatbot-eugene-goostmans-success-on-the-turing-test-mean/</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Tara Maya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" target="_blank">tara@taramayastales.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>LOL. To be fair, Siri does about as well as Grandma does in interpreting what my five year old says...</div><br><div>
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<br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Jun 8, 2014, at 4:00 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family:Optima;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" lang="EN-US">
<div><div class="h5"><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
My friend’s 6 yr old daughter was telling Siri about her weekend. She said:<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
I went to the zoo, I went to the museum, I lost my tooth, I went to the carnival, and I got a new bike.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Siri heard:<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> "I went to zero went to the museum I or Springtooth I think the carnival on my goddamned bye."<u></u><u></u></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Speech recognition isn’t there yet. <u></u><u></u></div>
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