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Re:Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything by mc32 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:00PM (#22174554)
So you’re saying people can tell fiction from reality in film (even if film re-enacts actual events), but can’t use that same construct to evaluate a “bot”?

Maybe... but it seems like a bit of a stretch.

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Re:Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything by IanCal on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:03PM (#22175621)
People feel sad when their bomb disposal robots die. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/funer...

We're just not great at keeping what we know and how we feel in line.

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