Geetha, You can talk with me any time!
George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geetha Shamanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [AI] takeover bid This article does not unfortunately mention the site where one can chat with 'George'. Robots can be ideal for people wanting to practice a foreign language. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aruni Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:44 PM Subject: [AI] takeover bid > Alan Turing, the British mathematician whose concepts in the early > 1950s foreshadowed the modern-day digital computer, proposed a simple > test to check for artificial intelligence. > If a human judge, he said, engaged in a natural language text > conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a > machine, and if the judge could not reliably tell which was which, then > the machine would for all purposes have passed the test. > As of 2006 no machine has managed to do that. But now a robot messager > or chatbot has hit the Internet. It is so lifelike in its responses that > many people have been fooled into thinking they're talking to a human > being. > Invented by British scientists and nicknamed George, it's programmed to > show emotions, tell jokes, answer questions and engage in intimate > conversation on subjects as varied as love, life and the universe. > It can also speak 40 languages as its vocabulary continues to improve > which, incidentally, is bound to happen considering George has already > chatted with some two million people since its inception. > George is also capable of carrying on a conversation with hundreds of > different people at the same time from all over the globe. To some > people, though, the scary part is that George continues to evolve. > > > From expressing itself only as a disembodied text interface, a > fully-animated 3D image of an androgynous-looking humanoid capable of an > extensive range > of gestures and expressions has recently been introduced to online > audiences. > > This new George, unlike many other conversational programs, does not > merely try to be logical but attempts to form relationships and > frequently behave illogically > in order to seem more alive. > > This is exactly what had been predicted by people ever since the > industrial revolution introduced the possibility of creating mechanical > human beings, and > Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein based on a laboratory-made semi-human > creature. > > The paranoia generated by such things has only gathered momentum since > then, so that today with the advent of powerful computers it has led to > an overwhelming > feeling of fear of a complete takeover by machines in the future. > > The reason is that robotic creatures can now also be imbued with > artificial intelligence which rivals that of human beings. When robots > supersede human > beings there would no longer be any need for the Turing Test. > > Unless, of course, machines start testing us for intelligence instead. > > (published under editorials of the times of india) > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
