I just got back to my desk to find about thirty IM windows waiting for a response. Thanks for writing, and please leave a comment or a blog post if you are so inclined.

As usual, you guys rock. Come back soon.

Jason

This is just hilarious. Thanks for writing this entry, it really brightened up a slow morning. :-)

This story makes one think about how much of our self-image is being created by what others think and say about us. This is a really weird example, one with huge incongruity between how we perceive ourselves and how others do - that's why it's a good illustrations. But in the real life too, we often rely on others too much to prove our worthiness by their comments, and not enough on our own self-evaluation.

Trying to use the email-to-friend link to share the fun gives me an input field too small for even one address.

Next thing you know, you'll be getting IM's from people convinced you're Philip K. Dick.

Great anecdote, by the way. For a bot, I mean.

You know, I’ve been having this for a year now, almost. Time to time some sorry AOLkiddie would come to me and ask ‘are u robot????’ as a result of me posting about an encounter with a chatbot which had been sent at me.

That post got googlebombed up to 8th place on the search ‘aim chatbot’ and then I decided I need to make it extra clear for these stupid creatures that if they had actually read what’s in that journal entry, they’d know it was not me being the robot but the other screenname…

Ah well :)

I really like your writing style. I only wish the article was longer. It was over too soon. Thanks for the laughs. You know, I have a similar problem of my own. For about a year now, I keep receiving messages by french teenage girls who think I'm some guy named Jason (I'm not making this up). I tried to pass as this Jason fellow but the horrible vacuity of the conversations with said teenage girls when i'm impersonating him is too much torture for me to keep it up for long.

Wanna swap Handles?

This isn't that interesting. If you told fratburger86 that you are not a sex bot and that he should leave you alone, he would probably be convinced you are an uninterested human being. Instead you reply, "I'm pretty sure you have me confused with someone else." You're only pretty sure you aren't a sex bot? Personally, I would block any screen name that started off the conversation "hey. so you're a sex bot?" What would you do if someone approached you on the street and asked if you were a hooker? Be more direct and save yourself the trouble. But then I guess you'd have nothing to write about...

Ya know back in the day when AIM was just gettin popular i remeber i thought i had that chic from "Boy Meets World" screen name. I never did find out who it was, I acutally felt important. But after reading your post i realized i could be wrong, i could have been wrong all along it was just some joe playing with me.

Oh well but that is freaking hilarious, I never thought a thing like that would happen. But your issue could come off forums or blogs that happen to have your screen name on it and someone picked it off and sent it to a mass amount of people.

Anyways i think you just made my day with such a ridiculous and mind blowing post.

What if its true that we don't exsist even though in in subsitance we do exsist.

-Marinor

Nah I think this page was actually autogenerated by some funky blog-bot. Are you sure you're real?

You're no human, you big goof! You're a blogbot!

Well you have found a new field of interest. Congrats! The new field that you have chosen is Philosophy. The oracle told Socrotes that he was the wises man. This confused Socrotes and went to prove the oracle wrong. Socrotes knew that he knew nothing and still went to search for someone wiser. Through his quest he found that he was the wisest even though he knew nothing. Happy hunting!

My question is what is reality?

I had same problem earlier with Yahoo chat. But then I changed my nick and used Open source yahoo chat client such as zinc. It has features like auto ignore, add only needed friends and so on. Btw a good write up :D

I wonder what would happen if someone took two different chatbots and made them talk to each other.

Sorry to hear about your failure of the Turing test dude. The only advice i can offer is 0010 1101 0101 1110 1010 0101 1011 0101 0110 1010 0011 0101 1001 1010 1001 1110 1010 0101 1011 1111 1101 0001 1101 0101.

Have a great day though. May all your memory lapses merely be static.

Brilliantly funny.

Hey, over here, it's a robot with a blog!

I hope you can see that most of your responses were quite generic. In every attempt to determine if you were human, you changed the subject subtly while using some elements of the current discussion.

Granted, you didn't know who these people were, nor the motiviations for their IM, but PLEASE, try to have more of a personality in the future. ;) It'll work out better for you!

People will go very far in order to preserve their beliefs.
The groupies would still believe you were a celebrity unless you specifically denied it.
And then they would react rudely, instead of apologizing.
Those who thought you were a 'bot' would reframe your denial as typical behavior of a bot and therefore continue thinking that you were one.
Any answer that you would give to their questions would also be dismissed this way.
Those that wanted to chat with a 'sex' bot probably would fail the turing test themselves. Finally, and I dont mean to hurt your feelings Jason, but you insist on believing that you are human, although every piece of empirical evidence of this can be cast into doubt.

We all want to continue to believe that which we already believe .
Even the robots amoung us.

Love it and will blogroll it at the above blog address! ;-))

(13:27:00) junglefever453: Hey its been a while what are you up to I dont think Ive talked to you since highschool
(13:28:23) junglefever453: ???
(13:28:29) JustinF: what's your real name?
(13:28:44) junglefever453: jennie 23/female/california
(13:28:59) JustinF: I definately didn't go to HS with you
(13:29:13) junglefever453: lol
(13:31:13) junglefever453: ???
(13:31:30) junglefever453: u doin ok over there?
(13:32:14) junglefever453: :-p
(13:32:42) junglefever453: u doin ok over there?
(13:32:59) JustinF: you're a bot
(13:33:14) junglefever453: lmao, i'm not a bot
(13:33:23) JustinF: what kind of music do you like?
(13:33:36) junglefever453: I like them all, but mostly rock and hip hop
(13:33:44) JustinF: what do you like about hip-hop?
(13:33:56) junglefever453: i dont remember anymore lol
(13:34:07) JustinF: you're totally a bot
(13:34:21) junglefever453: im not a bot, lol did u really think i was?
(13:34:30) JustinF: what's 9 x 9?
(13:34:42) junglefever453: ;-)
(13:34:48) JustinF: ok, if you're not a bot
(13:34:51) JustinF: then you're dumb
(13:34:59) junglefever453: what? lol sorry i'm no bot
(13:35:04) JustinF: what's 2 + 2?
(13:35:13) junglefever453: oll
(13:35:31) JustinF: you're a bad internet speller
(13:35:41) junglefever453: are u online a lot?
(13:36:54) junglefever453: hello? i just want to talk to u for a bit
(13:37:05) JustinF: gotta go
(13:37:13) junglefever453: You have been talking to a computer! One of your friends is reading the whole conversation and laughing it up right now! GET EVEN! Have the bot prank all your friends by visiting imprank.ebaumsworld(dot)com

Do you believe it is normal to be not intelligent?

Lord, I hate it when I get random crap like that. Next time, just say something off-the-wall like 'Look, whatever, I've got a three-year old screaming from an ear-infection, I don't have time for this crap.'

No bot in the world would have something like that in it's database. Though, now that I've mentioned it, I'm sure it'll get added >.>...

...
In Turing Test Two, two players A and B are again being questioned by a human interrogator C. Before A gave out his answer (labeled as aa) to a question, he would also be required to guess how the other player B will answer the same question and this guess is labeled as ab. Similarly B will give her answer (labeled as bb) and her guess of A's answer, ba. The answers aa and ba will be grouped together as group a and similarly bb and ab will be grouped together as group b. The interrogator will be given first the answers as two separate groups and with only the group label (a and b) and without the individual labels (aa, ab, ba and bb). If C cannot tell correctly which of the aa and ba is from player A and which is from player B, B will get a score of one. If C cannot tell which of the bb and ab is from player B and which is from player A, A will get a score of one. All answers (with the individual labels) are then made available to all parties (A, B and C) and then the game continues. At the end of the game, the player who scored more is considered had won the game and is more "intelligent".
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http://turing-test-two.com/ttt/TTT.pdf