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11/9/2011

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What have computers learned from humans? To bicker, apparently. If you’ve ever read the comments on, say, any YouTube video and despaired at humanity, that might not be a surprise.

Two researchers from Cornell University gave cleverbot, (an online chatbot that interacts with, and learns from, humans in text form) 2 different voices and 2D avatars, and set the avatars up to talk to each other.
The conversation quickly descends into bizarre bickering about god, robots and unicorns.

The experiment is the Cornell Creative Machine Lab’s submission for the 2011 Loebner Prize Competition in Artificial Intelligence.

    “Dr. Loebner pledged a Grand Prize of $100,000 and a Gold Medal for the first computer whose     responses were indistinguishable from a human's. Such a computer can be said "to think." Each     year an annual prize of $2000 and a bronze medal is awarded to the most human-like        
    computer. The winner of the annual contest is the best entry relative to other entries that year,     irrespective of how good it is in an absolute sense.”

Judge the conversation for yourself:
You can also chat to cleverbot yourself (the online text interface only I'm afraid, you can't talk to either of those avatars... yet).


I tried it out...

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