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I could design chat bot that passes itself off as a human using speech to text.

  Interrogator: "Hello, how old are you?"
  Bot: "I'm 2 and a half."
  I: What is your name?
  B: Keegan
  I: I live in the Capital of the United States.
  B: Why?
  I: Because there was a job open and I needed one.
  B: Why?
  I: Because I need money in order to live.
  B: Why?
  I: You know, to buy groceries and stuff.
  B: Why? 
  I: What do you mean?
  B: I like butterflies!
  I: Oh, really? 
  B: Yeah, do you know butterflies come from cappilars?
  I: Yeah, I knew that.
  B: Do you like butterflies?
  I: I guess so.
  B: Why?
  I: They look nice I guess.  
  B: Why?
  I: I don't think you're a person, this is shit.
  B: SHIT!
  I: What?
  B: SHIT!
  I: Stop saying that.
  B: SHIT SHIT SHIT hehehe!
  I: Oh God damn it what did I do?
  B: SHIT SHIT GOD DAMN SHIT HEHEHE!
  I: I gotta go.
  B: OK, bye!
  B: SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!
I take issue with the example given in the article because nobody's going to reply with 2 sentences for every simple question. Likewise, it's bad with memory and reasoning. It should have had some trouble when he said he lived in the capital of the US and the capital of the country that built the great wall, but then again it was obvious that it didn't remember where he lived at all.

At least in my example a 2 year old doesn't care what you're saying. It's able to learn better than the other example, but still not a lot is expected.

I bet there's some cognitive age level that we're able to emulate well enough to pass off as human, at least in terms of verbal communication. I think it would be useful if we were better able to measure that, and raise that level slowly. Maybe we actually can impersonate a 2 year old well, then what about a 3 year old? 4 year old? Where do we get hung up?

If we can't get a 2 year old's cognitive processes down without a doubt, we should build on that first instead of trying to do something more complex without an understanding of how to make the foundations of that intelligence work.



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