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Could Your Tinder Match be a Scam Bot?

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Photo. Daniel Allan / Getty. The online dating world has been lit ablaze by the app known as Tinder ... Tinder's popularity probably has a lot to do with its ease of use. Tinder presents you with a stack of photos of potential matches ... Pretty simple, right? ... Unless the bots are using a sophisticated chatterbot-based conversation engine, they will likely only have a few canned responses that they will give in response to your interactions....

Scammers and Spammers: Inside Online Dating's Sex Bot Con Job

Edit Rollingstone 01 Feb 2016
Christopher Russell owned a small bar in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, but, like a lot people these days, figured he had better odds hooking up online. Russell was 40 and going through a divorce, so he wasn't seeking anything serious ... "It seemed like a very active community," he says. Related ... The Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity, or ALICE, which generates scripts for chatterbots, has been around for decades ... ....

5 Online Dating Red Flags You Shouldn't Ignore

Edit About.com 28 May 2015
Online dating has gone from something that was scoffed at a few years ago, to a ubiquitous technology that is as mainstream as ordering pizza. There are dating sites that cater to certain niche audiences such as the infamous farmersonly.com and of course there are still the large established mega sites such as match.com, eharmony, and others ... They don't interact well (except for maybe some of the more robust "chatterbots")....

The ghosts of AIM past

Edit Mashable 17 May 2015
Like many others currently in their mid-to-late 20s, I grew up listening to the constant sound of doors opening and closing — you know, the sound of one of your buddies signing into or out of AOL Instant Messenger, better known as AIM. AIM was the hub of my social life from the late '90s to the mid-2000s ... Image ... I immediately though of SmarterChild, a chatterbot you could interact with (but who was not nearly as helpful as, say, Siri) ... ....

Mindset of the Class of 2015 (University of Connecticut)

Edit noodls 07 May 2015
(Source. University of Connecticut). Each year since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students. The college traditionally issues the list in August, when the class enters college ... States have always required that they wear their bike helmets ... Navy ships ... They've always had the privilege of talking with a chatterbot ... distributed by ... (noodl....

Young World Puzzles - March 13, 2015

Edit The Hindu 12 Mar 2015
Quiz Whizz. By Gina Neutron. 1 ... Name her field and position. 2 ... Name this owl that is native to North America. 3 ... 4. ALICE is a natural language processing chatterbot or talkbot — a program that conducts conversation with people via auditory or textual methods ... ....

5 Signs Your Online Love Interest Might be a Scam Bot

Edit About.com 31 Oct 2014
TInder, Match.com, POF, OK Cupid, the list of dating sites and apps goes on and on. Lots of people are dating online and looking for love, or at least someone to share a nice dinner with ... dating scam bots ... There are some sophisticated bots known as Chatterbots that have the ability to mimic an almost intelligent conversation, but these seem to be more rare than the ones being used on Tinder at the present moment ... ....

Do Feelings Compute? If Not, The Turing Test Doesn't Mean Much

Edit National Public Radio 01 Jul 2014
To judge from some of the headlines, it was a very big deal. At an event held at the Royal Society in London, for the first time ever, a computer passed the Turing Test, which is widely taken as the benchmark for saying a machine is engaging in intelligent thought ... And ever since, people have been building programs called chatterbots designed to do just that, with modest success ... 13.7. Cosmos And Culture ... But I'll keep an open mind ... What?....

AI-based Chatterbot Developed by i-Free is First in World to Pass Turing Test

Edit PR Newswire 18 Jun 2014
, June 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --. Eugene Goostman is an AI chatterbot built by Vladimir Veselov, Sergey Ullasen and his team and developed by i-Free. It is the first anywhere in the world to successfully pass the Turing test, with over a third of judges mistaking Eugene for a human. AI technology has long occupied a place in i-Free's specialties and professional interests ... The event was coordinated by Dr. Huma Shah ... ....

The Curious Case of 'Eugene Goostman,' Part II

Edit Huffington Post 18 Jun 2014
As I alluded to in Part I of this blog, Saturday, June 8th, 2014 is a day that shall live in A.I.nfamy ... The source itself is suspicious ... And his initial announcement was typically long on claims, short on specifics ... You see, I know Eugene Goostman ... What's a Chatbot, Anyway?. The term "chatbot" (a.k.a., "chatterbot") first occurs in connection with ELIZA, a program developed by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum back in 1966 ... ....

The Life and Times of 'Eugene Goostman,' Who Passed the Turing Test

Edit Mashable 12 Jun 2014
Eugene Goostman is a smart-ass teenager, living in Ukraine and currently conducting conversations with inquisitive souls around the world. There's only one problem. Eugene is not a boy, he's a program ... See also ... Image ... Image ... Me ... Me ... Me ... By the way, do you know a terrible story about a chatterbot, that wanted to be a President? He spoke ugly, his phrases were lame and intelligence was artificial (he told only the things he was prompted to)......

The First Computer Program To Pass The Turing Test Was More Than A Little Sneaky

Edit Business Insider 09 Jun 2014
Cramming for the test. In an event that is sure to capture the world’s imagination and that has been proclaimed as setting a new milestone in the study of artificial intelligence, a computer programme has successfully passed the “Turing Test” ... In the past, judges had tended to forgive nonsensical answers from chatterbots that were young. They also overlooked language issues if the chatterbot was foreign ... email ... OR ... Tech ... ....

Stanford author meshes text and tech (Stanford University)

Edit noodls 30 Jan 2014
(Source. Stanford University) L.A ... Like many novelists, Scott Hutchins writes about traditional literary themes like love and family, drawing from a wealth of personal experience ...   ... Bassett ... There's the old trick from ELIZA, for example, where you send back all your interlocutor's statements as questions," Hutchins explains, citing one of the earliest "chatterbots," developed at MIT in the 1960s ... Media Contact....
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