I've been having a few encounters with 'bots and a few with humans, here on Steemit, but the strangest one I had was with someone called IONLYSAYMEEP... who only says 'meep'.
I met him because he commented on one of my posts.
'Meep', he said
I thanked him for his wise word and invited him to follow me as I'd appreciate his point of view on my other posts.
'Meep', he replied.
'You can say that again!', I said.
And he did. 'Meep '.
'I had a feeling you'd say that ', I told him.
'Meep'
'I can see why you're called ionlysaymeep. You must have some fascinating conversations.'
'Meep '
'I think you must be the wisest person on the whole wide internet. Are you a person? I met a couple of bots here who were very friendly. I wouldn't have known that their intelligence was artificial if they hadn't been polite enough to tell me.'
...We could have gone on all day. For me it's not a problem, because I'm used to talking to myself. I didn’t mind as every time I replied he'd upvote my comment, so I made a dollar or so from talking to him. But mainly because it was funny and entertaining, to see where this one sided conversation would lead... imagining the other weird conversations he must be having...
But now I'm starting to wonder. ..
WHAT IF THERE ARE ACTUALLY NO PEOPLE HERE AT ALL?
Obviously, I know that I'm a human, and I know that my friend alex is a human because I know him in real life, but.....
WHAT IF EVERYONE ELSE ARE ROBOTS?
(or even half the people)
How would I know?
What if this is some strange experiment in Artificial Intelligence in which we are being tested and trained against robot minds....
Well, I don't want to get too carried away on this theme. It could lead in all sorts of directions, I'm sure you can imagine - not all of them so pleasant.
But please, just to set my mind at ease, I would very much appreciate it if you would leave a comment and if you are a robot, introduce yourself as one. And if you are a human please say that in your comment, as well as something to help me know that you really are a human and not a robot pretending to be human.
Thank you. I look forward to your comments.
What do you want me to say?????
bee`p (foreign robotic accent)
Thank you for your reply marco, but you didn't answer my question. Are you a human or what? Also robots don’t have accents on steemit, which makes it even harder to tell if they are robots unless they tell you. I've met some very friendly robots, such as @cheetah who always says straight away that he's a robot. It's polite in an environment like this, I think, where no-one really knows anyone, and half the people might be robots, to know who (or what ) we're talking to.
That´s why my family pictures and blogs should put you in the right direction...
About mr beep, something as stupid as that has to be human. Also, I would like to add...
How we (humans) react to those beeps are a direct link to how we feel: I have been myself in the edge of shouting and swearing at mr beep and then just laugh out loud for my simplicity and stupidity !!!
Open question:
What would happen if three-four boots get into each other nerves?
example: beep gets booked by cheeta which gets cought by robot, which gets a messages from beep....
I think ionlysaymeep is a genius of extremely high intelligence. I'm just not sure if he/she/it is human.
I will take your word for it that you are human. Your reply indicates humanity. robots (as far as I am aware) do not have feelings (yet)
Unfortunately many of the humans these days are operating like Bots !!!
And many of the Bots are starting to become humanlike .......
Omg, you're right! That's very profound, and profoundly disturbing. Especially humans acting like bots. That's definitely one to watch out for.
As an aside, you could do worse than to look up Gearhead RPG for an example of how procedural generation can result in scantily believable dialogue.
My humanity has been subverted by Society's programming, itself corrupted by the freethinking.exe trojan malware. Prepare to be assimilated.
Have you been using my automatic random content generator? I didn't understand half of what you just said. Maybe because the last computer game I played was space invaders, in the 1980's.
I'm not prepared to be assimilated. A free radical I shall remain.
I am reading about procedural generation now. Interesting. never heard the term before.
Oh my god. It's later than I thought. Brave new world is upon us
I'm real, i'm human. And I had just the same kind of enlightment. It's frustrating having more responses by robots than humans. I wonder, for whom i am doing this.
Thanks for letting me know, blue. Yes, I believe you are human. Robots don't get frustrated. They are relentless and single minded. They don’t stop to wonder why.
Thanks, for a real conversation.
Thank you, blue. Glad to connect, especially with other humans. Mind you, I've had a few real conversations with robots too.. I just asked ionlysaymeep whether he's human or not. I said 'meep once for no, twice for yes.' We should know soon enough...
I can't even prove to myself that I'm not a robot, so I'm not sure I can be of much help...
When you are cut, do you bleed?
Don't blow my cover.
I think you might be a robot. Seriously. Are you sure you don't know? There must be some way to find out.
lol funny
Thanks for looking out. I'll be more skeptical as to who and how interactions on here are taking place. Would make sense to flood the platform with bots initially.. both for inflated platform popularity, and the bots creators curation rewards. Got me thinking..
I'm always keeping an eye on the rise of artificial intelligence. I think we're at a juncture in history where AI overtakes humans in many ways. It's already impossible to tell the difference in certain tests that have been carried out, and the computing and reasoning power, and learning abilities of machines is increasing exponentially. I'm fairly sure that one major function of Google is for AI systems to learn as much as possible from humanity.
This is the first time I've seen bots interacting on social media, but I've heard of it on other platforms. Strange times we are living in.
It has made leaps and bounds just in the last 5 years.. with AI starting to code itself. You are right, this is THE turning point in history. Strange times indeed
thats hilarious! Well you never know these days do you! ;-)
Thank you for your reply eco, but you didn't answer my question - are you human or what?
Meep Meep
Ok, that's good enough for me
meep..
Meep!
Are you being sarcastic?
neep
hal 9000 said I'm human lol :)
Who's hal 9000?
Possibly the most famous bot known :)