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to: Geo.
from: John Beckett
date: 2007-05-01 20:21:16
subject: Re: talking to a bot

From: John Beckett 

"Geo."  wrote in message
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> Well it looks like that made quite an impression over at Yahoo, they hired
> the bot.

At least it didn't wish you have a nice day.

It's an interesting turn-around of the Turing test - if a bot can't be
distinguished from a human, then the bot has intelligence.

I could well imagine a harassed human producing what you quoted (someone
who was out of their depth, and who could only follow a script that handled
simple cases). So I can't distinguish the human from a bot.

John

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