Reporter Clive Thompson recently chatted with ābabygurl01475ā, an Instant Messenger persona developed by someone out there to get people like Thompson horny enough to part with his credit card number. Because Clive is supposed to think that babygurl01475 is a real person who wants him badly.
Babygurl failed. Thompson wasnāt fooled. But he did manage to have an interesting, ridiculous conversation with the chat/sexbot. His explanation of what the Turing Test actually is didnāt seem to register with his online pal, but the rest of us, who all deal with disappointingly unintelligent virtual characters a few times a week, can learn something from it. Check out the full chat.
āLetās get this party started!ā My evening talking to ābabygurl01475ā ā¦ [Collision Detection, via Twitter]
