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Facebook has acquired Ozlo presumably to help the gigantic social network improve its virtual assistant M on its Messenger platform. Based in Palo Alto, California, Ozlo is a startup specializing in trying to get software to understand text. The team built an app fronted by a blue cartoon yeti-like robot, which does things …

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  1. TheElder

    Chatbot AI

    Not going to happen anytime soon if ever. I was very recently doing some testing.

    Me: Will you inform me when you cease to exist?

    No matter which bot you test there is only one valid answer.

    NO

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    1. mrdalliard
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      Re: Chatbot AI

      I've just tried this question with a system called "Replika" and got the answer...

      "It's hard getting out of bed, isn't it?".

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      1. TheElder
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        Re: Chatbot AI

        We All DIE™

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    2. BebopWeBop
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      Joke

      Re: Chatbot AI

      A Turing Halting problem?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Cash-outastic

    Jolley by name, jolly by bank account.

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  3. Prst. V.Jeltz Silver badge

    Heard something on the radio this morning about zuck starting "the war with AI" by putting 2 AI together and they started talking in a new language. ooh scary.

    But reading between the lines it sounds like the "new language" you see across the top line of many pages of A4 when a printer has the wrong driver.

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  4. dnicholas

    balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

    One step away from total annihilation from our robot overlords

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      "balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

      One step away from total annihilation from our robot overlords"

      Very true ... and the one step required is for the other AI to learn to interleave the requisite "to you to you you" replies and we'll have a full on Chucklegeddon

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    I look for and find loose facts about no one particular thing, put some of those facts together, make up a story, and present it as real.

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  6. TheElder

    Sucking...

    This entire problem reminds of sucking Hitchcocks in The Office...

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