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The Online Date That's Too Good to be True

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Turing Test of Chatbots

The modern Internet is stripped of any context. Short statements can be ripped out of a longer argument and shared, mocked or retweeted. In this environment, certain kinds of statements thrive. It's because we humans have lowered ourselves to their level. We all know someone like a lyser who asks for information but never volunteers anything about themselves. And we're surrounded by people like Converse who bully their way into talking about their favourite topic. Bots as simple as mGons and Jenny 18 pass the Turing test, because the kind of conversations they have, trolling or sexting, don't need to have a history. But even if a perfect chatbot is released tomorrow, I hope

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