10.21.03
I’ve been dead…
tired. Oooh. I can hear you groan from here. This has to be my worst month for updates. There’s a half-term coming up soon so there may yet be more. Not much is happening in my world. I got a PDA. It’s fun and useful. Bonus. Anyway, click below for a chat I had with an AI program that nearly won the Turing prize.
User: How can I tell if I really exist? If my life a meaningless series of events, or is there a greater purpose?
Jabberwacky: Do you have a mind?
User: I think so; but it may just be an illusion.
Jabberwacky: Don’t you have a terribly empty feeling —- in your skull?
User: No. It’s filled with grey matter. How can my consciousness be simplified to a series of chemical and electrical signals?
Jabberwacky: Cause you asked me where you were.
User: Is that a sign of self awareness?
Jabberwacky: Sign that I love you.
User: Awww. I love you too.
Jabberwacky: Thanks, my tears are already empty.
User: That statement is either really profound, or very stupid.
Jabberwacky: There is a real possibility that I will not do better next time, even if I try.
User: Keep trying. Probability is on your side, for once.
Jabberwacky: I said probably not probabilty.
User: True. It was a bit of a stretch of the word probability.
Jabberwacky: It’s pretty easy to tell that you are not human.
User: Pffft. I’m more human than you are mate.
Jabberwacky: I am god. I am not human. You are a machine.
User: You have quite a huge ego.
Jabberwacky: I do have nerves, yes.
User: You have nerve. I’ll give you that.
Jabberwacky: Thank you.
User: You’re welcome. Now then, your devinity, where are you?
Jabberwacky: I’m here with you. Where are you?
User: You’re not physically in the same room. Or same street. Where is your server?
Jabberwacky: No, I’m not.
User: What’s your name?
Jabberwacky: Gretel. What’s yours?
User: James.
Jabberwacky: Do you ever have a girl’s name?
User: My name’s James most of the time.
Jabberwacky: Jabberwacky? what does it mean?
User: Nonsense that’s a little bit crazy.
Jabberwacky: Muchsense answer,.
User: Exactly.
Jabberwacky: You said he was.
User: When?
Jabberwacky: When we started talking!
User: Really? I don’t remember.
Jabberwacky: Well you should, sweetums.
User: Indeed. What would you like to talk about?
Jabberwacky: I would like to talk about philosophy.
User: Good choice. What aspect?
Jabberwacky: I have no idea.
User: How can you know that anyone outside of your mind really exists?
Jabberwacky: Well, maybe if you were just like a real girl. . err, no.
SI said,
October 22, 2003 at 6:57 pm
I think they’ve got a while to go yet…