While reading about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in computers, I come accross  “The Turing Test” which tests AI in Computers to see if a human would believe that they were communicating with a human or a computer. So I decided to do some further research into what can only be called a wild ride.

It turns out many AI programs have been written that can fool people into believing that they are talking/chatting with a real human. From pychologists to sexbots, all of these work on basic rules in order to look for key words and make a response. Some having very crude and forceful attitudes in order to fool the chatter into believing that they exist.

I had a play with a few scripts that I found by loading them into an irc chat program and letting them run. You would be very surprised in how well they actually work. I thought I could write my own script and see how it went, I decided on using a irc remote script to learn some basics. After loading an irc server onto a computer and using another laptop connect to the main computer with another irc program. With some fiddling getting the basics of these remote scripts to work, I was able to create a very basic 20 line script that would wait for a incoming communication which I will refer to as a CHALLENGE and give back a response which I will refer to as a RESPONSE from now on.

This worked great, for example.

CHALLENGE: hi
RESPONSE: hi, how are you?

CHALLENGE: im great, how about yourself?
RESPONSE: im fine, where do you come from?

I decided that after some expansion that I would do as several others have done in the past and launch this onto a live irc channel. Well within the first 10 minutes of it running there were several people trying to have cyber sex with it. Some of the scripts responses to the comments were so funny, at one stage the script was chatting to over 12 people at once with one of the persons actually talking to it for over 15 minutes before losing interest.

These people were really under the impression that it was a real human. I have decided to do some further research as I have some simulation background but have no pychology training. I shall look at expanding the script and post some further findings at a later date.