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The Online Date That's Too Good to be True

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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The Last Time You Had Sex

A computer science student programmed a chat bot called MGons. Mark Humphries was astonished to find that MGons had just passed the Turing test. But he wasn't sure if he could publish it because of its offensive nature. We should learn from this moment in computing's history, says John Defterios.

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