Microsoft may be running the biggest Turing test in history

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Microsoft may be running the biggest Turing test in history

 

According to Dr. Wang, the thing that sets Xiaoice apart from other AI assistants is that Xiaoice is focused on the conversation and not the completion of a task.

Microsoft measured the effectiveness of their chatbot with what they're calling conversations per session (CPS), which measures the number of times the conversation goes back and forth. Typical chatbot CPS conversations have roughly two cycles (the person speaks, then the chatbot speaks — that's one cycle). "By comparison, Xiaoice’s average, after chatting with tens of millions of users, has reached 23," wrote Dr. Wang. He even claims that Xiaoice can analyze and react to your emotional state. To prove it he reproduced an example Xiaoice conversation:

Xiaoice: Are you feeling better today? I want to recommend a book to you.
Human: I am in a bad mood. I still miss her.

Xiaoice: You are so persistent. Wake up, you will have no future if you can’t get over with the past.

Microsoft, though, isn’t necessarily saying that Xiaoice is understanding what's being said. A lot of what Xiaoice can do is driven by the Bing search engine's 1 billion data posts and 21 billion relationships between those data points. Mixed in with that are voice and visual recognition systems that help Xiaoice figure out the context of the conversation.

 

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I wish this bot was available in English for us to test  out... 
But nevertheless, AI is taking huge strides.

P.S: Someone should test it on Dennis 


Source: http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/microsoft-xiaoice-turing-test/#DWeqzt.OMkqG


 

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[Beskamir]

Interesting... although until I can have an AI on my own hardware I'll probably never make use of them. Really don't trust 3rd parties.

[corsairian]

Um. 

[Deli]

When will guys start dating AI online girlfriends?

[azurezeed]

Just don't make terminator...

[Howlingwolf101]

16 hours ago, Deli said:

When will guys start dating AI online girlfriends?

As soon as they can-unfortunately