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More Chatnanny news. After foolishly jumping on their bandwagon initially New Scientist are now being more cautious. They've apparently been given a demo of the software by 'creator' Jim Wightman, they're not insisting he's a fraud but it was basically nowhere near as good as in the interview that Wightman had originally given them right back at the start. It didn't detect when they tried to pretend to be paedophiles, one of the testers said "There was nothing novel shown or demonstrated in the trial," says Webb. "The system relied on the usual level of tricks to hold a conversation, and as such was shown to be weak in conversation very quickly.". Interestingly Chatnannies links to the New Scientist article and seem to suggest they think it shows them in a good light. They offer that they can give a more complete proof to anyone, anytime, though if you check the blogs I link to here, the last time Wightman said this it ended with him withdrawing his offer and going off in a sulk when the people said how they wanted to test his work.

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