Security News > 2020 > June > ‘Bot or Not?’ – a game to train us to spot chatbots faking it as humans
Or, as I said when I finished playing a new online Turing Test game called Bot or Not, NAILED IT!! Bot or Not is an online game that pits people against either bots or humans.
The creators of Bot or Not - a Mozilla Creative Awards project that was conceived, designed, developed and written by the New York City-based design and research studio Foreign Objects - say that these days, bots are growing increasingly sophisticated and are proliferating both online and offline.
It's getting tougher to tell who's human, which can come in handy in customer service situations but is a bit scary when you think about scam bots preying on us on Tinder and Instagram, or corporate bots that try to steal your data.
In their explanation of Bot or Not's purpose, the game's creators point to a recent Gartner industry report that predicted that by 2020, the average person will engage in more conversations with bots than with their spouses.
All the same, insisting that expressions made by 'bots' are strictly the speech of their creators comes wrapped up in its own complications, especially when humans are conversing daily with bots as friends, therapists, or even lovers.