The artificial intelligence of CyberLover's automated chats is good enough that victims have a tough time distinguishing the "bot" from a real potential suitor, PC Tools said. The software can work quickly too, establishing up to 10 relationships in 30 minutes, PC Tools said. It compiles a report on every person it meets complete with name, contact information, and photos.
(Via Peter Watts' blog.)
Apparently there's been some naive speculation that "CyberLover" is poised to pass the Turing Test. (Not a chance . . . although maybe I shouldn't be too quick to write it off, not having "spoken" with it).
Turing-compliant or not, this development cheers me because it provides further evidence for my pet theory that true AI will arise from sexbots (online, in meatspace or -- perhaps more likely -- in augmented reality). Dispense with cheery visions of android receptionists; the first convincing humanoid robots will be sex workers. They'll have to pass for "real" if they're to do their jobs, and the economic imperative for true-to-life pleasure bots will persist so long as there's a market. (And do you really think potential clientele will lose interest just as the requisite technologies are falling into place?)
Further musings on this subject can be found here.
2 comments:
Hell, why not sex as the primer for AI?
I've posted a couple of threads about booze and catching a buzz for the reasons we have agriculture and civilization.
How many more of the deadly sins do we have to go through before the Singularity happens? 8-)
Pleasure bots are coming soon (sorry about that). What concerns me more are the military bots that are, as you mentioned in an earlier post, very compliant to their masters will.
Michael
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