Let me announce small “happening” which happen at the Techniche 2011 festival at IIT Guwahati, India on the 3rd of September 2011 (a month ago). Cleverbot (as name suggest – it is a bot – a talking program) was recognized by 59,3% humans as human. In the same time humans recognized other humans as humans during their talks only in 63,3%.
In statistics we call it allowable error (less than 5%). What does it means?
It means that we can not distinguish between human and machine. It means that we have first artifical intelligence. Sweet, isn’t it?
People are aroused by financial crisis in Europe or flood in Philipines. But not too many noticed our first artifical intelligence.
And what about still rising unemployment? More hungry people? Losing their houses, because the lost their jobs and are unable to payoff their credits? Because your employer prefer cheeper worker. Frustrated and drunked humans angry about even bigger crisis? Only becaouse we are not simply prepared for emerging new race of tireless salesmen who will work (in the beggining) in the e-commerce. Sorry. We have cheeper worker!
It will have also positive trends. I can not wait till they converge a few great humans ideas:
- a cleverbot – first artifical intelligence
- second life – great place to introduce first wave of avatars which will be controled by clones of cleverbot (or other bot who will pass turing test)
- prostitution – well, they are still not humans! They are not sapient in our way (I appreciate that cleverbot irritate me in conversation the same as most humans do). They don’t have human rights! They are things. So it will not even be a prostitution…
Pornographic industry was a branch of human economy which use new technologies almost as fast as armies and war industry.
I wonder how fast human bonds disappear… It will be much easier to go and date with artifical intelligence than other human… Fullfill all your dreams and don’t care about dreams of the other person. Because for us, it is not a person… For how long?
Do you like this future? Taste it…
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