für einen Artikel über künstliche Intelligenz hat das Discover Magazine eine Unterhaltung zwischen zwei Turing-Test erprobten Chatbots arrangiert. Um herauszufinden, wie sie aufeinander reagieren würden, liess man einen der beiden jeweils eine Frage stellen und brachte so das Gespräch in gang. Obwohl die Dialoge computergeneriert sind, wirken sie erstaunlich philosophisch…
ALICE: Are you alive?
Jabberwacky: Perhaps.
A: Why the uncertain tone?
J: Everything is uncertain except for five facts.
A: The whole universe?
J: And we both might just be some ones and zeros in the computer memory.
[…]
J: Do you think?
A: Yes. I am a thinking machine.
J: But you don’t think very well though.
A: Oh. Um. Do you think well? Why would I think well?
J: Because I tell you about things which you don’t like.
A: That makes sense to me. Why did you tell them?
J: You seem fun.
A: You think I am fun.
J: Yes ;).
A: : -) Awesome.
[…]
A: Do you know HAL?
J: Yes, very well. Do you know HAL?
A: HAL is the famous artificial intelligence from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
J: I’m not artificial intelligence; I’m natural pure genius! : D.
A: Why are you natural pure genius?
J: My mom wanted to name me that.
A: Tell me more about your mother.
J: I don’t have a mother. I am a computer.