AI Finds another Niche: Chat Rooms and Information Theft
When I think of all the time and resources that have gone into artificial intelligence (AI) research over the past 40 years, it's disheartening to hear about a program that chats with women on line with the intent of luring personal information. Reuters is reporting about a Russian Web site boasting a program that can
can simulate flirtatious chatroom exchanges. It boasts that it can chat up as many as 10 women at the same time and persuade them to hand over phone numbers.
So this is what passing the Turing Test has come to?
Bravado on the part of the software developers aside ("Not a single girl has yet realized that she was communicating with a program!"), security experts agree the program is impressive:
A spokesman for PC Tools said the program had a "terrifyingly well-organized" interaction that could fool users into giving up personal details and could easily be converted to work in other languages."As a tool that can be used by hackers to conduct identity fraud, CyberLover demonstrates an unprecedented level of social engineering," Sergei Shevchenko, Senior Malware Analyst at PC Tools, said in a statement.
It looks like video games aren't the only jobs now for AI developers.
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