Remember when SmarterChild was first released? As a middle-schooler i thought it was amazing. An program that controlled text conversation through an AIM screen name. The creators had thousands of possible responses to any number of questions. They even programmed humorous insults for when the program could not comprehend the human user in order to make up for the lack of complexity. This is similar to the matter discussed in the 3rd article of our reading. As realistic as Smarterchild may seem, it was very quickly apparent that it was a program and not a person. SmarterChild used perfect grammar on AIM, which is nearly unheard of and had a limited set of responses. If you were to talk to SmarterChild today though, it is a much "smarter" program than back at its debut.
It is obvious that a program doesn't have the capabilities of holding conversation with a human past a certain point as of now, but what do you think would occur if programmers set two of these automated talkers against one another?
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I think if two of these unintelligent machines were to talk to each other, they would end up in a loop of redundancy. I believe that they might go through a litanny of responses to one anothers' questions, however eventually they would get stuck in a rut with the same question and answer every time. Or, two answers. One would ask something, the other would respond. This would provoke the same question (because the answer was in regards to the same topic that the question asked), and each time the question would be asked, the same answer would result. I do think, though, that this loop of redundancy could result at any given time. It could happen at the first question, or the thousandth question. It would be random, but determined by each machine's program, and the first question/statement made.
It would indeed be interesting to see what these two machines would do when forced to talk to one another. My prediction is that it would take the form of a fairly regular conversation, albeit seeming very artificial in terms of the types and depth of questions asked. It is interesting that you posted about this because just a few days ago i was messing around with SmarterChild and was quite amazed. As you probably know, it starts out asking multiple questions about you in an effort to "get to know you." Once you get through those questions, however, smarterchild seems very determined to ask you trivia questions instead of anything else. As you could probably guess, i got pretty bored of it and just quit; but, smarterchild has indeed made come pretty cool advancements.
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