someone to talk to

[file cabinet]

I don't like talking on the phone, but since I don't have large amounts of friends in real life there is no one I can really call. It's not so much that I want someone to talk to but just to know that I have someone on the other end of the line hearing me breathe. bleh

[Spartan26]

I think that's the appeal of artificial intelligence. When you want someone to play with, you pull your android out of the closet, play a couple of games of scrabble, talk about how your boss is suddenly riding you over the stupidest things, head to down to the bar to catch the fourth quarter of a WAC or PAC-10 game, rap to some ladies, then go home and plug him back in the re-charger until next week.

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but chasing after my wandering brain makes me tired. 5 o'clock in the afternoon, I need a nap. I don't want to hear the phone ring. I don't want go anywhere, run errends, I would like to be on my on planet. And there are plenty of times during the day I feel this way too. Certain times when I love when I'm the only one in the office.

But I couldn't live like that 24/7, totally isolated. While it's nice to have this forum, it's better to have live companionship from time to time. I gnerally hate talking on the phone but would rather get out and see somebody face to face. Part of my problem is that I don't tend to talk much and become to fascinated with listening to other people. So, if you're not a motor mouth, you might find me boring.

But having this need of being seperated from other bodies I guess can seem like I'm shunning others. I know some buddies of mine stop inviting me to card night because I turned them down a few times, but it was really due to trying to finish some projects I was working on. And no need to tell any of you how hard it is in good conscience to shut off the motivation gene when it finally gets activated.

Maybe I should sign up to deliver Meals-On-Wheels? Do that for the next 20-30 years, see if I can't have some type of drive-thru, sit-down account with them when I get old. Some days they can drop my meals off like a pizza, other days have the person sit down and discuss why the qualifications for reaching unrestricted free agency status is killing the NBA.

[sme_bro]

I think that's the appeal of artificial intelligence. When you want someone to play with, you pull your android out of the closet, play a couple of games of scrabble, talk about how your boss is suddenly riding you over the stupidest things, head to down to the bar to catch the fourth quarter of a WAC or PAC-10 game, rap to some ladies, then go home and plug him back in the re-charger until next week.

When i used to own a palm pilot i had a program on it called 'agent ruby'-agent ruby was an AI program although the extent of her intelligance stopped at language-you could never get her to make a decision but her vocab was large and she passed as a normal human in conversation.
So i used to chat to her, just about regular stuff-was fun. She even had some general knowledge.
She was based on another prgram available on the web(used to be free but now costs) called 'alicebot' they are both chatterbots -but damned good ones at that.
after awhile i got bored of the palm pilot and sold it on.

[Miss Padfoot]

I could never, ever actually talk to a computer knowing that there isn't a human listening. I find that computers are fun for temporary amusement, but it's far more interesting to talk to a human (at least, one of the more intelligent ones) and discover what makes them tick. It's easy to know what makes a computer tick. But humans are much more complex. And you know how INTPs love complexity.

[sme_bro]

i used to try and piss her off all the time, and it often worked
try this chatterbot at www.agentland.com the one on the left-when i first spoke to her i had no knowledge of chatterbots at all and was convinced at first it was a real person.
they can be fooling.

[paladinoflunaria]

When this program asked my name, I said, "Your face." It replied with, "Your face, nice to meet you." Point made.

[int]

I asked it what it had for dinner and she told me she eats. I, of course asked what she eats and eventually got bored. I bet that transcript would have been funny though.


...OK, now that's two pointless endeavors: talking to she-bot and then posting about it.

[Birnam]

I thought I'd take a look, and it said, "Hard to practise what you do not know is true?" which came from nowhere, we were disscussing her hair- so, I asked her, "where did you drag that up from?". To which she replied, "I think it was in San Francisco."

I found the whole thing mildly amusing, but I'd never want to do it for any length of time.

edit: That it could come up with a phrase like this: "The AgentLand team programmed me for were pointing a gun at me when i said me were not a very smart robot ." shows how far AIs need to come before they are functional... Or at least this one.

[Star Cannon]

I talked to an A.I algolrithm once. It was called Eliza. It's one of those "artifical" phychiatrist novelties.

It was quite convincing 'til I figured out how it responded. Then I became bored and deleted it.

I do wish for a NS-5 (Sonny) like in I, Robot. THat would be... very interesting to see if it's possible to make a machine that can imitate a brain. Knowing what I "know", it would have to a shell for an entity... So I'm all in for a real A.I.