George -Geeta prefers chatting with your namesake ROBOT since you are too busy running marathons and you cant chat with her in German. So better watch out or you will be replaced completely. Kanchan ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Abraham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geetha Shamanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 18:49 Subject: Re: [AI] takeover bid
> 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 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
