RichardKennaway comments on Upcoming LW Changes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 05 February 2016 04:12:00PM 1 point [-]

I'm just saying it's so technologically cool, someone will do it as soon as it's possible.

Ahem. ELIZA, the chat bot, was made in mid-1960s. And...:

Weizenbaum tells us that he was shocked by the experience of releasing ELIZA (also known as "Doctor") to the nontechnical staff at the MIT AI Lab. Secretaries and nontechnical administrative staff thought the machine was a "real" therapist, and spent hours revealing their personal problems to the program. When Weizenbaum informed his secretary that he, of course, had access to the logs of all the conversations, she reacted with outrage at this invasion of her privacy.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 February 2016 04:27:52PM 0 points [-]

I'm aware of ELIZA, and of Yvain's post. ELIZA's very shallow, and the interactive setting gives it an easier job than coming up with 1000 words on "why to have goals" or "5 ways to be more productive". I do wonder whether some of the clickbait photo galleries are mechanically generated.

Comment author: V_V 07 February 2016 10:03:46AM 0 points [-]

Here.

Comment author: Lumifer 05 February 2016 04:49:16PM *  0 points [-]

I guess I just think of chatbots as "old tech" and not as "new and cool" :-/ ELIZA, as you mention, is extremely simple, and still was able to tap into emotional responses. Nowadays we have Siri and Cortana, the Japanese virtual girlfriends, etc.etc.

I am also not sure that the ability to generate coherent text (as opposed to generating original, meaningful, useful content) is that valuable nowadays. The intertubes are already clogged with mediocre-to-awful blog posts -- there are enough humans for that.

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