#turing test fail

[moldyporcupine0]

Dear @staff and whoever makes tumblr bots, they're way to easy to spot. No quality control. Basic responses only made to send a link. Make it pass the Turing Test. Like I'm disappointed. V obvious, low quality bots still are constantly around tumblr and need to be removed or improved.

TLDR: improve or remove bots

[snowgall]

The voice recognition system in the iPhone operates entirely on the basis of acoustic physics, not at all on linguistic phonetics. It attempts to match sounds with signal types that it has been trained to respond to in certain ways, but beware of imagining that it knows when you are saying something, or even what "saying something" means. The truth is that it cannot tell the difference between a labiodental fricative and an anal fricative. Let alone distinguish between when you're saying something sensible and when you're talking out of your ass.

Geoffrey K. Pullum, “Siri and Flatulence”

[infant-tyrone]

Turing test fail

Phonebot: Hello! I am a new, automated system that can understand complete sentences! You can speak to me the way you'd talk to a person! How can I help you today?

Me: oh Jesus I've got a lot of questions-- I'm really in the middle of a lot of fucked up shit here, but I suppose this is what I get for prevaricating for so long. See the main issue---

Phonebot: please hold while I transfer you to a customer service professional.