2: Laughter
Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind
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The Depressing Truth About Chatbots
I met a guy who'd invented a chat bot. He admitted to me that he filtered about 50% of what was coming in. And I said, why? Because, you know, if you kept it all in, you would have created the ultimate filth bot. So we realized the only thing we could do was employ a human. Emma came in every morning to review the previous days jokes and take out the dirty ones. She ended up with 40,000 rude jokes. Did you publish them in a book? No, she's very popular at parties though. You give her any rude topic and she's got like 10 really good jokes about it. Absolutely disgusting.
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