If You're Chillin' - An Síbín Reoite

Auditor #9 wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

Are auditors left wing or right wing?

So that was the last thing I said on the tax thread before I had one last look around the climate change thread which has been getting into American multinationals lately and to which discussion all the posters cactus ibis youngdan seinfeld are making interesting contributions and then I shagged off here. Then I had a look out the window and I saw that ibis is working on p.ie - how the hell is he able to keep up with it all? And this new David Cochrane/Bertie Fire/Tribune story ... my Lord
.. cheers!

Sorry I'm late I was just checking out Ibis's new computer on the Tax thread. Feel like having a girlie drink tonight.

ibis wrote:

Thanks! I also did the washing up, cooked dinner, made my daughter eat hers, was a monster (and got killed) repeatedly, read some of the White Paper on the Reform Treaty, tidied the house, did some Google Maps programming, read a chunk of "Atlantic Empires"...no TV, you see. Also, I can multitask, and I'm a stimulus-hound.

there you go cactus. And you're convinced that ibis is fully human? I saw iron man you know - there exists robots ..

Don't mix em they'll make you sick and you won't feel like getting up for Mass tomorrow (unless you went this evening already)

Auditor #9 wrote:

Don't mix em they'll make you sick and you won't feel like getting up for Mass tomorrow (unless you went this evening already)

They won't let me in because of these horns.

Do you think Ibis might be a woman after all? This multi-tasking and stuff? But no - not with that computer.

cactus flower wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

Don't mix em they'll make you sick and you won't feel like getting up for Mass tomorrow (unless you went this evening already)

They won't let me in because of these horns.

Do you think Ibis might be a woman after all? This multi-tasking and stuff? But no - not with that computer.

We've discussed this - I'm an AI.

I am going to pretend I know what that is.

Anyone want a brandy and milk?

cactus flower wrote:

I am going to pretend I know what that is.

AI? It's quite easy.

ibis wrote:

We've discussed this - I'm an AI.

I knew it.
Tell us the numbers or you don't get a chaser.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

I am going to pretend I know what that is.

AI? It's quite easy.

Audi says he is a robot. Ibis I mean.

cactus flower wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

I am going to pretend I know what that is.

AI? It's quite easy.

Audi says he is a robot. Ibis I mean.

It makes sense.

We should invent some questions that robots would never be able to answer - like in Blade Runner. Questions like - In Michael McDonald and Patti LaBelle's "On My Own" - do they finally get back together in the end or not? It would totally baffle a robot a question like that.

Auditor #9 wrote:

We should invent some questions that a robot would never be able to answer - like in Blade Runner. Questions like - In Michael McDonald and Patti LaBelle's "On My Own" - do they finally get back together in the end or not? It would totally baffle a robot a question like that.

Or how do they get the figs into the fig rolls? It would completely short circuit his(?) logical sub-routines.

Or Do you think Bella from Fair City is a convincing actor?

Truly we would know the men from the bots.

Auditor #9 wrote:

Or Do you think Bella from Fair City is a convincing actor?

*sharp intake of breath* Even I, a fully sentient and socio-culturally aware hominid organism would have difficulty with that.

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Truly we would know the men from the bots.

Indeed, and this has given me an idea.

I'm off to bed now. I'll try counting bots to go to sleep.

Are we going to make a skyscraper thread soon? There's the mother of all skyscrapers about to get finished in Dubai so a thread might not have such a long life. Although an irishman is building a mother of a yoke in Chicago too - a twisty one.

Here's the extent of the Burj Dubai skyscraper which will be finished next year:

Nearly twice the height of the Petronas towers - and they're half a kilometer high

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

Or Do you think Bella from Fair City is a convincing actor?

*sharp intake of breath* Even I, a fully sentient and socio-culturally aware hominid organism would have difficulty with that.

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Truly we would know the men from the bots.

Indeed, and this has given me an idea.

Myself and Ard-Taoiseach were playing last night with what's known as the Turing Test. This is a method of trying to determine whether an entity that you are communicating with is human or not.

Kicking them in the groin might come to mind as the most immediate test but what if they are speaking to you through a wall, from the other end of a phone or on a discussion forum...? What distinctly human questions can you ask an intelligence in order to determine that they are indeed human and not a machine pretending to be human?

Ask him to describe a broken heart.

Kate P wrote:

Ask him to describe a broken heart.

Couldn't it simply regurgitate a standard description from Mills and Boon?

You'd only fall for it if you were an AI yourself, Audi.

Kate P wrote:

You'd only fall for it if you were an AI yourself, Audi.

Link here if you absolutely have to

Would an AI read Mills and Boon, Audi?

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Five years ago, Princess Diandra Montgomery fled her native Verdonia—and an arranged marriage! Now, as a former palace staff member threatens to publish a tell-all book exposing the travesty of her parents’ own contracted union, Diandra is forced to return home to defend the family honor. Can a mysterious ring hold the key to the truth about her parents’ relationship? Only one man can help Diandra find the answers she seeks—her jilted fiancé Jonas Tolken. And Jonas is more than willing to help—for a price!

Would you like to join us at the Book Club? Having read the book is not, of course, obligatory?

I have an annoying head-ache, so it'll be none of the heavy stuff for me. I'll just have a nice glass of refreshing iced water to toast the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ: