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Re:Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? by oblio on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:26AM (#17266371)
The thing is, that's a very hard problem. He's probably got either the luck to be in a favorable space or some sort of native intuition that makes his speeches resonate with a certain group of people.

It's basically something very fuzzy, historically the hardest thing to emulate with computers :)

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Re:Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? by tw1010 on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:35AM (#17266470)
Fuzzy would imply it's hard or impossible to model it, mathematically. But ask any good biologist and I bet you'll hear quite a bit of confidence that the keys behind powerful speech can be understood. For an engineer without domain expertize, yes it's fuzzy. Armed with the right research papers? Highly likely something persuasive could be implemented.
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