Mister Roboto {Content}

Qualifying me as a "bot" or having "rotobtic features" you actually questionned my human nature, jokingly or seriously. Since you were definitely not the first person to do so, here is a structured page (yet human-readable) to elaborate on that topic in order to hopefuly help us both.

Questions to explore

• Should I be offended?
• Did you actually ask a proper question?
• Did you ponder this very question yourself?
• What led you to such a conclusion?
• What are the consequences of my education?
  • laicity
  • science
    • carthesian method, logic
    • mathematics
    • computer science
      • artificial intelligence
• What are the cues that lead you to this idea?
  • potentially misleading behaviors
• What are emotions?
  • emotions are quick heuristic that takes over before more costly but more effective rational decision making takes place
• Don't be surprised I made such a page as Im not surprised you are surprised to know that such a page do exist.

Human nature

Ideal

religious bias, upraising, humanocentric, ...

Reality

biological machinery, quantum physics, ...

Risks

reductionism, idealism, ...

References

• Measurement and Classification of Humans and Bots in Internet Chat, Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium 2008, July 2008
• FaceBots: Steps Towards Enhanced Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction by Utilizing and Publishing Online Social Information, April 2009
• Parsing the Turing Test Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer, Springer, 2008
• brief History of CAPTCHA according to Wikipedia
  • Verification of a human in the loop or Identification via the Turing Test by Moni Naor, 2006
• Unreal Tournament : Was That a Bot or a Human? Surfdaddy Orca, H+ Magazine Summer 2009
  • The 2K BotPrize for game bots
• Chapter 1. Emotional States from Marvin Minsky's The Emotion Machine
• Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong by Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen, OUP 2008
  • associated blog
• Technical Report GIT-GVU-07-16 Lethality and Autonomous Systems: Survey Design and Results by Lilia Moshkina and Ronald C. Arkin, Mobile Robot Laboratory, College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008
• Researchers develop “HoneyBot”, Social Engineer IRC Users automatically, IRC-Junkie.org June 2010
  • http://seclab.tuwien.ac.at/papers/autosoc-leet2010.pdf
  • Home of the Worlds Best Chat Bot 2009 Loebner Prize
  • Home Page of the Loebner Prize first formal instantiation of a Turing Test, started in 1991
• Mind vs. Machine by Brian Christian, The Atlantic March 2011