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The ELIZA Effect

99% Invisible

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The Future of Artificial Intelligence

Paul Martin: All artificial intelligence is questionable and probably wicked. The computer now knows about 300 words, but it could take a long time to figure things out. In 2018, Google revealed something called duplex, a conversational AI that can make phone reservations. There are still limitations, of course. They still can't really understand the world in the same way we do. And humans remain as open and sometimes gullible as ever when it comes to interacting with chatbots.

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