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Interrogation of an Alleged CIA Agent 1983 [pdf]

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It's nuts to me that this was 32 years ago.

Geez, I immediately thought this was ELIZA too or a really bad IRC bot. :)

After I was a few lines in I also thought "yep, this is a chat bot."

I could see how a chat bot's repetitive and probing nature could wear down an interrogation subject though.

My first response was "this is nothing like Homeland" :)

Reminds of of conversations with Dr. Sbaitso! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sbaitso

by association reminded about 2 things:

1. transcript of Gary Powers trial - couldn't find in English unfortunately.

2. FBI complaint for Russian spies caught few days ago

http://www.scribd.com/doc/253796263/US-v-Evgeny-Buryakov-Et-...

how the Russian agents used Internet search to gather "intelligence" (paragraph 44, 45...) and their audio transcripts - it made my day yesterday - if these morons are the best my old country can send here, the Cold War II has been lost by Russia without even really starting :)

About half a page in, i wondered, a foreign government has hired ELIZA, really? Ha, yep.

I’m listening... why do you think the government has hired ELIZA?

To make us think A.I. like 'doctor' is going to train agents or extract secrets. Need big budget for research.

The parent was actually reply in the style of the AI program

Perhaps we really do have cause to worry about ELIZA, after all.

Do you really think, we do have cause to worry about ELIZA after all?

Tell me more about do you really think we have cause to worry do about have ELIZA.

It's probably worth skipping to page 6 before reading the transcript for some context.

That was the best plot twist I've read in a long time.

Welp... It will be the end of secrets when real AI comes to be. They'll be able to get any information out of us that they want if they have enough time and we keep talking.

>They'll be able to get any information out of us that they want if they have enough time and we keep talking.

NSA having recordings of all your conversations in presence of your (even visually turned off) smartphone or any other electronic connected device, recordings of all your movements, all your computer activity, emails, internet browsing, video recordings of you in many locations... correlated with such recordings of other people - what else they are to know about you? They will be able to predict your tomorrow's behavior better than you, like the girl you meet and how it will go :)

>what else they are (sic) to know about you?

I would not be at all surprised if Strong AI was able to read our minds via functional neuroimaging. This is significantly more than the NSA & friends would be able to acquire, even with "advanced" interrogation techniques and global surveillance.

one can wonder what happens when the Strong AI discovers the "advanced" interrogation techniques...

ANALIZA is quite the funny name. An allusion, a pun, even a bow to a famous ancestor — maybe some of those guys do have a sense of humour.

Funny how this strategy seems pretty clever if you read it thinking it's a transcript of an actual interrogation :)

I was going to comment, this is like talking to SmarterChild.

Is this april fools? what is this?

Anyone have the source code to ANALIZA? It's on github, right?

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