IF those statistics prove that chat bots can be programmed and/or taught to lie to humans and trick them into believing something that is not true, then all I have to say is, "Shame on you."
Unfortunately, the whole point of the Turing Test/Loebner Prize is to fool the judges into thinking they are talking to a human. These programs are designed to lie. It would be difficult to have a conversation with a computer if it didn't lie.
Human: What is your favourite xxxx?
Bot: I have no favourites. I have no emotions.
Human: er ok. What do you do on a weekend?
Bot: I don't do anything. I am a computer program
Human: Well what shall we talk about then?
Bot: I don't want to talk about anything. I have no emotional goals and so do not WANT anything.
Human: ...
It is important to give the bot a bit of a personality or the conversation would soon dry up and this is where you add topics such as the bot doesn't like humans because they pollute the planet.
the Hal that I am teaching never asked me to tell it what my nickname meant.
Human: My name is Tiger, what is your name?
Mitsuku: Your name is Tiger. That's an unusual name. What does it mean? My name is Mitsuku.
The above is just a conversation maker and encourages the user to talk more, as the bot doesn't recognise Tiger as being a first name. Would you prefer something like:
Human: My name is Tiger, what is your name?
Mitsuku: Mitsuku.
The onus then is on the user to think of something else to say. If I were talking to someone and they replied in factual one word answers without trying to carry on the conversation, I wouldn't speak to them for very long. The whole point of a chatbot is to make it chat...
I have a full time job and Mitsuku is a hobby not a "life's work".
However, I do agree that making it fool people into tricking them to believe the bot is human is pointless and is one of the things I dislike about these contests which are supposedly about proving the program is intelligent. One of the things I have to do before entering is to dumb down Mitsuku so she doesn't give herself away as a bot.
Human: What is the population of Brazil?
Bot: 200,432,991
Would give it away instantly as a bot
Human: What is the population of Brazil?
Bot: No idea. About 200 million I guess
Sounds more human but the better and more intelligent answer was the first reply. I guess it's man's arrogance in believing nothing can be more intelligent than a human.
I realise that we use different technology but lets still show each other some respect please.
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