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Mysterious machines

Published: 02 March 2010 Publication History

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Alan Turing proposed a test for the intelligence of machines in 1950 [1]. Despite great efforts, no computer has passed this test so far. Each year, chat bots compete for the Loebner Prize, the first formal instantiation of a Turing Test. No contender was able to fool the jury yet. Major problems of the chat bots are the lack of common knowledge and the logical consistency of a dialogue.
We explore a new approach to chat bots by focusing on non-logical conversation topics: mysticism. The founding books of the major religions are widely acknowledged examples of mystical topics. We selected the New Testament, the Koran and Rigveda as the knowledge base for our conversational robots.
The robots are able to autonomously talk to each other and to humans about their religious believe. Each robot represents a belief, but we do not reveal their convictions. This ambiguity forces observers to follow the actual conversations instead of quickly applying stereotypes.

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A. Turing, "Computing machinery and intelligence," Mind, vol. 59, no. 236, pp. 433--460, 1950.
[2]
LEGO, "nxt," http://mindstorms.lego.com, 2009.
[3]
C. Bartneck and J. Hu, "Rapid prototyping for interactive robots," in Intelligent Autonomous Systems 8:{the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Conference, Amsterdam,March 2004}. Ios Pr Inc, 2004, p. 136.
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L. Mayor, B. Jensen, A. Lorotte, and R. Siegwart, "Improving the expressiveness of mobile robots," in Proc. of IEEE Int. Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication ROMAN), 2002.
[5]
J. Vandevelde, P Geurts, "Robbedoes en de vallei der bannelingen, 1994.

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HRI '10: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
March 2010
400 pages
ISBN:9781424448937

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  1. chatbot
  2. exhibition
  3. religion
  4. turing

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  • (2018)Design Strategies for Representing the Divine in RobotsCompanion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction10.1145/3173386.3173388(29-35)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2018

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