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Re:Xiaoice, a chatbot that may be the largest Turing test in... by stcredzero on Friday February 05, 2016 @05:22PM (#11045094)
It seems like an ai (chatbot, rather) behaving unpredictably just covers for it's lack of abilities and tact.

There's a long history of chatbots using tactics like this.

How about a revision of the Turing test that specifies rational, mature human beings. It matters not that those terms are hard to define. Just have the human population picked by hand, using surveys. Such a practice would make such contests/tests much more valuable.

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Re:Xiaoice, a chatbot that may be the largest Turing test in... by ph0rque on Friday February 05, 2016 @05:52PM (#11045283)
How about a revision of the Turing test that specifies rational, mature human beings.

Yes, but then how many people would fail the Turing test? A non-trivial amount, I would guess.

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Re:Xiaoice, a chatbot that may be the largest Turing test in... by wolfgke on Friday February 05, 2016 @09:00PM (#11046136)
This would provide strong scientific evidence that there are quite some people in our society that are not very intelligent. I'd rather claim that this shows something that is rather evident than surprising.
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Re:Xiaoice, a chatbot that may be the largest Turing test in... by saulrh on Friday February 05, 2016 @06:36PM (#11045542)
Which is why the turing test is a liiiiittle bit iffy as a specification for "intelligence". It's actually pretty good as a test for behaving-like-a-human, but it's actually not very good for intelligence because humans themselves aren't particularly "intelligent" by many definitions, particularly in the regions where computers are strongest.
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