Slutbot aces Turing Test*

Reminds me of that Futurama episode where they warn of the dangers of Robot-Human Relationships. And the Lucy Liu-bot... well nevermind.

Ok, so I have to ask : What gender is the slutbot? Is it only female or can it adapt to gender preference? Can it set up a chat as a lesbian biker, a desperate housewife and a big bear leather daddy all at the same time? If you are going to have a slutbot, you might as well have go all the way.

I like to think of the slutbot as being infinitely malleable.

Isn't the modified Turing test about being able to mimick one sex better then unassisted humans from the other sex?

Reminds one of Eliza. If you know Eliza, you are old, like me. I have seen worse:

While completing a strategic sector review for an EU telecom giant on the Brand Monitoring and Text Mining of Blogs, I came across a renegade researcher that had created a 'blog reposting engine'. This engine crawled and massaged various whole blogs, using thesauri and NLP to create a clone blog, that perfectly captured the articles with enough linguistic changes to be totally convincing.

It was an engine for plagiarism. And I think it;s in the wild.

Sexual seduction is an activity in which our hopes and projections are mostly active. But we don't need much consistency in language and much less when the discourse becomes heated. The discourses are based more on the limbic and reptilian parts of the
brain. It seems that even in this case the sex industry is at the forefront of technology!

Thanks for the post! I linked to it on my blog.

Also, I did an Google image search with the term ’slutbot’. The image I posted (www.pwnership.com) was the first item returned on the search.

So what will the Web 2.0 version of SlutBot be?

In addition to precipitous intelligence drop you mention, and the true nature of a Turing test, there is the ritualized aspect of sex and "courtship."

Many approaches, responses, and sentiments uttered between people seeking partners have little variance within a given language and preference. This is overdetermined: it not only makes it simpler to make intention clear, but it reflects the "imprinted" nature of sexual preference, which is fairly deeply programmed.

never ascribe to artificial intelligence what can be explained by human stupidity.

http://minmlist.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/turing/

And I'm talking about the stupidity in all us men. Admit it, we're aroused by Jessica Rabbit. That doesn't qualify as a Turing test. The test spec is quite clear: human tester in room A, human adversary in room B, artificial adversary in room C, communicating by electronic text. Tester has to tease out who is human and who isn't.

Still, its something to think about. By the way - nice article about this same issue in the latest Scientific American Mind.

Liza's lone comment above prompts the question, Nick: where are the ladies on Rough Type?

Perhaps slutbots, or technology per se, are not sexy.

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