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Saturday, May 19, 2012

How Do You Know You're Not Conversing Online With A Bot?

If you're really not sure, then you've become little better than a bot yourself so it doesn't much matter. Turing's Test was never really a measure of the arrival of artificial intelligence in nonhumans, but of the arrival in humans, through their involvement with idiotic implements, of artificial imbecillence.

More Futurological Brickbats here.

2 comments:

jollyspaniard said...

The bot speech was composed by humans anyways.

jimf said...

> How Do You Know You're Not Conversing Online With A Bot?

If nobody answers, you're probably just "conversing" with yourself.

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