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Re:A therapy chatbot for depression by Kenji on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @05:23PM (#14509993)
>You can easily fool people into thinking they're talking with a person even though they're talking with a machine.

Citation needed. After 5 minutes of chatting with a robot, you conclude it's either an insane clown or a robot.

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Re:A therapy chatbot for depression by TeMPOraL on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @06:04PM (#14510227)
I fooled enough people with my half-assed IRC bot that did a bit of fuzzy pattern-matching for natural language queries.

It's harder to fool someone in an actual, focused 1:1 conversation, but it's easy to do in brief interactions when people don't suspect the other party may be a bot.

See also: automated news stories, autogeneration of e-mails, etc.

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