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The Online Date That's Too Good to be True
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Chatbots Fail the Turing Test
Jenny 18 talks dirty to people online. They beg her for photos or a phone number. She just talks dirty some more. And on it goes until, how shall I put it? The conversation comes to a happy ending for the human. This is the grimy truth about the Turing test. It's not that hard for a computer to produce conversation that seems human because a great deal of human conversation is shallow small talk and mindless abuse. If we want to set the computers a real challenge, we need to do better.
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