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Video: Robots' first conversation descends into argument

By xt4v 618 days ago in Science & Technology  |  telegraph.co.uk  |  WTF Videos  |  No comments

Two chatbots forget the etiquette of avoiding religion, sex or politics in conversation when two PhD students at Cornell University introduced the pair to eachother.

Cornell University researchers Jason Yosinski and Igor Labutov rigged up a chatbot system to allow online avatars to talk to each other.

Chatbots are designed to emulate the conversational abilities of humans, usually in an attempt to pass the Turing Test for intelligence.

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