The Turing Test: Transcripts of the best attempts
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After comparing human to human conversation and bot to human I feel like goal of conversing with computer is so far away.
People communicate through such narrow channel. Few words, almost no grammar and they still can stay perfectly in sync. If bot tries to imitate the style it descends in pure nonsense. If it does not it still seems like it's not capable of understanding anything.
I think another approach would be to ditch grammar and just build some kind of word and word combinations associative database fed with extensive memoirs of single person.
If bot spots a question it should respond with closest word combinations found in database. Also it should remember what was said and use it as a context while seeking for answer.
If you don't start by copying single human you will always end up with patched up Frankenstein like creature that can be easily discernible from human.
Besides, mind is just big lookup table with simple, not very effective reasoning engine and desire to fill in the gaps in the table.