Friday, March 19, 2004
BBC NEWS | Technology | Net chatbots to catch paedophiles
The Turing test is passed? Alan Turing proposed a test in which a user had a conversation with a machine without knowing it - and if they couldn't tell if it was a computer or another person, the system would pass the Turing test and hence could be called truly intelligent. This BBC story tells of the Chatnannies program that inhabits chatrooms trying to catch paedophiles, and which no-one has caught out.
Other approaches have been taken - sting sites have been set up to catch offenders, and we've talked in this blog before about search engines passing info on to the police. The web is becoming a less safe place for paedophiles.
The Turing test is passed? Alan Turing proposed a test in which a user had a conversation with a machine without knowing it - and if they couldn't tell if it was a computer or another person, the system would pass the Turing test and hence could be called truly intelligent. This BBC story tells of the Chatnannies program that inhabits chatrooms trying to catch paedophiles, and which no-one has caught out.
Other approaches have been taken - sting sites have been set up to catch offenders, and we've talked in this blog before about search engines passing info on to the police. The web is becoming a less safe place for paedophiles.
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