(May 13, 2018 at 1:19 pm)Hammy Wrote: @Mathilda: What the fuck happened with the Little Rik bot? Did his programming go wrong or was he intentionally created to be that batshit crazy? Also, what's with his 10 emoticons per post shtick?
This was our first bot. We knew that the only way to reliably pass the Turing test was to limit the topic of conversation, much like a paranoid schizophrenic will bring every conversation back to how everyone is trying to kill them. So we figured it would be easy to start off with the religious equivalent and start from there. We should have retired it a long time ago but we kept it to remind us how far we have developed. I mean, we can now write bots whose posts actually make sense.
Of course now it's a popular exhibit in our institute's museum. Guests come along, press a few buttons on the Little Rik exhibit display screen and it sends off a post. Little children especially like the emoticons so you often see quite a few of them its posts. It then prints out a T-shirt with the full post printed on the back, and on the front in big letters it reads "I <heart> Little Rik".
Little Rik plush dolls are a big seller in the museum gift shop.
