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Show me you're nuts
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 16:35:48 -0500
via ./ (I know, but its a slow day) http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/09/1356201 "According to Ina Fried, a chatbot is making the rounds that successfully emulates an easily-laid woman. As such, it dupes lonely Russian males into divulging personal and financial details at a rate of one every three minutes. All jokes aside — and a lot of them come quickly to mind — that sure sounds like the Turing Test to me. Of course, there are caveats. Reports of scary internet security threats are commonly overblown. There are some pretty obvious ways the chatbot could be designed to lessen its AI challenge by seeking to direct the conversation. And finally, while we are told the bot has fooled a few victims, we don't know its overall success rate at fooling the involuntary Turing "judges."" also: http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9831133-56.html _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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