<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 4:02 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What an abusive chatbot teaches us about the art of conversation<br>
Tim Harford     28th April, 2022<br>
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Quotes:<br>But while MGonz was abusive, it was not a troll — it was a simple<br>
chatbot programmed by UCD undergrad Mark Humphrys that was left to<br>
lurk online while Humphrys went to the pub. The next day, Humphrys<br>
reviewed the chat logs in astonishment. His MGonz chatbot had passed<br>
the Turing test.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's not one of the Turing test variations I'm familiar with.</div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>