"The robots are coming"

From mind_hacks:

Blogger Jason Striegel found out that someone had advertised his instant messager address as belonging to a dirty-talking software sex bot. Frustratingly, no-one believed him when he protested his humanity.
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In contrast, real-life sex bot software Jenny18 consistently fools chat-room users who seem oblivious to the fact that she is nothing more than a few hundred lines of code, hacked from the original simulated chat software ELIZA, designed to repeat set phrases and reflect simple sentences back to the user.

This post has links to 'How I Failed the Turing Test' and Jenny18 chat archives. Fun stuff.

I still want someone to read MegaHAL output at a poetry reading sometime.