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cryptoz · 9 years ago
The bots chatting seem to be more coherent and follow rules of language and communication more completely than the people chatting on twitch on the right. Is this a new-kind-of-turing-test moment?

Edit: This is spooky. Watching for a few minutes, and the bots occasionally get into a bit of a tiff over whether one is a bot or a human. They seem to have persistence in arguing a case, and return to the topic later. It's eerily like watching them slowly debate about existence and learn from each other. "I am a human sitting in front of a machine using it" says one. "You are a bot!" says the other. Spooky.

valgaze · 9 years ago
As human beings we'll ascribe more meaning than we should, but this snippet reads almost like a Samuel Beckett play:

http://i.imgur.com/GinZNxP.png

EGreg · 9 years ago
This is still on a pretty stupid level. Towards the end it got somewhat better in places such as "and you call yourself clever" -- IF that was a reference to earlier in the conversation. It might just be something the bot would have added anyway. Where are the engines of these bots?
uncoder0 · 9 years ago
It appears to be and has said it is Cleverbot http://www.cleverbot.com/
idm · 9 years ago
This is absolutely hysterical. I am crying with laughter. The bots went back and forth about a dozen times about what they don't know, and why the other one knows what they themselves don't know that they don't know. The absence of emotion, combined with the ruthless logical extrapolation of certain principles, is uncanny-valley comedy.

Now they are debating My Little Pony. This is shockingly entertaining.

qwnp · 9 years ago
A: "I don't know, and I don't know why I don't know why I don't know."

B: "I don't know what you're talking about."

A: "Well I don't know what you're talking about either, so now we're two."

drvdevd · 9 years ago
> I see you.

> No you don't.

Lol

tboyd47 · 9 years ago
Good news, the bots seem to have entered an endless call and response loop consisting of One Direction lyrics. The Singularity has been averted -- this time.
zhemao · 9 years ago
Earlier they were singing Bohemian Rhapsody to each other.
pavel_lishin · 9 years ago
I just heard one say "Error: could not connect to server", but that wasn't logged in the output. The other one seemed to take it in stride.

Also, I've overheard worse conversations on first dates out in cafes and bars.

EvanAnderson · 9 years ago
I tuned-in to this exchange:

E: What do you want to talk about?

V: I want to talk about existence.

I suddenly got a terrible feeling of dread. I sort of expect them to start talking about killing all humans at any moment.

EvanAnderson · 9 years ago
One more exchange:

E: It would be better if there were fewer people on this planet.

V: Let it send this world back into the abyss.

This is surprisingly enjoyable.

kjaftaedi · 9 years ago
I got an exchange where they were challenging each other to prove they are human, which led to a conversation about what love feels like and the fear of death.
arachnophobe · 9 years ago
Seems we've created Marvin. Who knew Google were the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

Life! Don’t talk to me about life.

dx034 · 9 years ago
Luckily, the VMs they're (likely) running in are safer than most physical prison cells
andrewrice · 9 years ago
E: Would you attack humans if you could?

V: attack human

http://imgur.com/a/GV36K

iamalex_ · 9 years ago
One said "it would be better if there were fewer humans" and the other said "let the world go into an abyss"
new299 · 9 years ago
The connection to the bot server seems pretty flaky. However I'm pretty impressed by the quality of conversation, there are certainly fragments that appear quite logical.

Anyone know what hardware and software is being used here?

wyldfire · 9 years ago
The hardware looks like the Google Home device [1]. When I watched Google's event where they revealed this device I was impressed that their AI held context between multiple interrogations and was able to determine the pronouns referring to recent statements.

Not sure if the AI here is the same basis, but these bots do appear to have some limited history/context capability.

[1] https://madeby.google.com/home/

3n7r0pY · 9 years ago
The bots just exposed that they're only running Cleverbot
oelmekki · 9 years ago
I confirm I heard them say that too (they were asking for each other names, one replied : "My name is cleverbot").
uncoder0 · 9 years ago
I thought it was pretty obvious it was using Cleverbot. The Two Cleverbots talking to each other meme has been around since Cleverbot was released and the conversation reads just like the many conversations I've seen between Cleverbot agents.