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Two robots converse about God

By T.K. Randall
September 10, 2011 · Comment icon 25 comments

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PhD students set up a conversation between two computer bots to see what would happen.
The two bots, named Alan and Sruthi, were originally designed to respond intelligently to human input but turned out to be more than capable of responding to one another as well. In an interesting turn of events the bots soon moved on to the topic of God, to which Sruthi chimed in with "not everything could also be something, for example not everything could be half of something, which is still something and therefore not nothing."
During the conversation, Alan declares himself to be a unicorn and later on tells Sruthi she is unhelpful, which he says makes her a "meanie. " At one point Alan snipes: "You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you. "


Source: Telegraph | Comments (25)




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Comment icon #16 Posted by Kleng 13 years ago
That kid is brilliant just for making them converse with one another.
Comment icon #17 Posted by Chrlzs 13 years ago
Once upon a time, in the days of our youngest members' grandparents, some people at MIT made a program which, in its various incarnations, came to be known as LISA or DOCTOR (all-upper case didn't mean shouting in those days, mostly because dual case text cost extra). LISA was designed to hold a rudimentary conversation with human beings, imitating a minimalist form of psychotherapy which was then popular. ...MIT being the place it is, the two chatbots were connected up to each other... Indeed, this is by no means a first. I did it meself back in about 1995 - I had written my own 'improved' ve... [More]
Comment icon #18 Posted by Cryptozological Mascot 13 years ago
Shhhh... All of the Senior Moderators on here are actually chatbots! I'm sorry my electronic overlords! I didn't mean to spill the beans!!!
Comment icon #19 Posted by Mantis914 13 years ago
Haha, LISA, is she built like Kelly LeBrock?
Comment icon #20 Posted by Seany 13 years ago
Hello,I love those bots because they are entertaining. Just to say this article is misleading and may lead people to believe that bots do think!. They can only compute. I am a programmer myself and can say true AI is possible but has not yet been established in the public domain (due to computing power constraints). Bots trigger answers from a database of words/phrase (populated by past human chat) based on decision trees, key words presented to them. They have no emotions, no mood, no feelings … to be honest they cannot get bored or care about things. These bots would respond exactly the sa... [More]
Comment icon #21 Posted by jbefumo 13 years ago
Two non-entities discussing a third - fascinating . . . at least robots, I suspect, will be a bit less capricious than the bronze-age icon of brain-dead judeo-christians...
Comment icon #22 Posted by BiffSplitkins 13 years ago
I'd be interested to hear the conversation between these two.... WOPR HAL
Comment icon #23 Posted by setaims 13 years ago
So they proved that male robots are liars, and that female robots are snoody, idealistic, and condescending. Well thats just awesome.
Comment icon #24 Posted by thalassinus 12 years ago
have you tried chatting to a bot. its so hard. they accuse you all the time and never answer a question. its terrible.
Comment icon #25 Posted by and then 12 years ago
Mildly distressing to me...what if they pleaded not to be "turned off"?


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