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Robot Impersonates a Human on AOL Instant Messenger.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2000 by Bedell, Doug
Dec. 14--What happens when a semi-intelligent, typing robot impersonates a human on AOL Instant Messenger?
This summer, a 27-year-old cognitive science student in California started a grand experiment to find out. Kevin Fox of the University of California-Berkeley created AOLiza, a "chat-bot" that answers chat requests arriving at his home computer. Mr. Fox, one of the original America Online beta testers in the early 1990s, is owner of a screen name commonly entered by new instant messaging users or those attempting to set up their first Buddy Lists, which tell them which of their friends is online.
The results have provided a hilarious -- and sometimes disturbing -- window into the interaction between real people and computers.
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