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Move over, SmarterChild: Facebook has released an open-source chatbot called Blender that’s meant to mimic human speech patterns and empathy. The bot is called Blender because it uses a novel AI task ...

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The virtual assistants that inhabit our smartphones are helpful, sure, but they’re not going to pass the Turing test any time soon. They’re designed for understanding specific commands and actions ...

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of the company that we still don’t want to call Meta, would like to live in a world where we all sit around in VR headsets working alongside cartoon people that look like ...

For all the progress that chatbots and virtual assistants have made, they’re still terrible conversationalists. Most are highly task-oriented: you make a demand and they comply. Some are highly ...

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