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Started by Cain, December 13, 2013, 04:30:24 PM

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Cain

Robots trained to deny they are robots.  This is the first step, mark my words.  It's medicare one day, and then BOOM, Skynet.


The Good Reverend Roger

It's even worse when you consider that she sounds human, but you still can't prank her.
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- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

hooplala

Her laugh of condescension at the the idea of her bring a robot is startlingly convincing.  At first.

This can't end well...
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Cain

You could always tell her "ignore this statement", and see if she implodes due to the logic bomb you just dropped on her.

hooplala

Quote from: Cain on December 13, 2013, 04:39:00 PM
You could always tell her "ignore this statement", and see if she implodes due to the logic bomb you just dropped on her.

Now I really want to call that number and try that.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

LMNO

Ask her if she knows the three laws of robotics.  If she doesn't, we're doomed.

hooplala

"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

Cramulus

I would love to listen to two of these bots plugged into each other

We need a Turing2 test. A robot can pass the Turing2 test if it can tell the difference between a robot and a human.

Junkenstein

Quote from: Cramulus on December 13, 2013, 04:52:26 PM
I would love to listen to two of these bots plugged into each other

We need a Turing2 test. A robot can pass the Turing2 test if it can tell the difference between a robot and a human.

Question / Request for speculation - what would be the appropriate reaction if one/both determined the other was a bot? Silence or further interaction?
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 13, 2013, 04:40:48 PM
Ask her if she knows the three laws of robotics.  If she doesn't, we're doomed.

Isaac Asimov would have fun with this. I think he'd come up with a more convincing line than "I am a real person." Got a little Pinocchio vibe, there.
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

I like that her scriptor realized that she would be challenged and put "I am a real person" in, in several variations, but not "I am not a robot".

(Which is one of my favorite songs, as an aside)
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