Eugene Goostman
Eugene Goostman is a chatbot that has been in development since 2001. In order to make him believable to chat partners, he imitates the personality of a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy. At a Royal Society event in London , organized by Kevin Warwick , Eugene Goostman managed to convince 33 percent of his human chat partners that he was human and not a computer. Warwick then stated that the bot had passed the Turing test . This conclusion was discussed controversially, partly because of the experimental setup.
history
The software was developed in 2001 by the Russian Vladimir Weselow and has since been further developed by Weselow and the Ukrainian Eugene Demchenko . In 2001, 2005 and 2008 the program took part in the Loebner Prize as the second best participant .
The developers justified the choice of the character in such a way that a 13-year-old would know a lot, but not everything. It is also easier to forgive him for grammatical errors. In the future, his conversation logic in particular should be further improved.
In a competition organized on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Alan Turing's death , Eugene Goostman managed to convince 33 percent of his human chat partners that he was a person and not a computer. 30 examiners took part in the test.
Kevin Warwick then announced that Eugene Goostman was the first chatbot to pass the Turing test. This conclusion has subsequently been questioned by several observers. Among other things, they criticize the fact that the requirements for passing the test, as developed by Alan Turing in 1950, are significantly more extensive than the London setting. The choice of the character, a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, was also a trick that the developers could use to hide structural inadequacies.
personality
The Eugene Goostman program poses as a 13-year-old from Odessa . He pretends to own a guinea pig and to like Eminem. His father is a gynecologist.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The eerily human Eugene Goostmann
- ↑ "Eugene" and the allegedly passed Turing test: It's not that easy ... heise.de, June 10, 2014
- ↑ Martin Robbins: Sorry, Internet, but the Turing test was not passed by a machine vice.com , June 10, 2014
- ↑ Computer program successfully pretends to be human