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A linguist looks into Sophia the robot
  
 
Posted: Mar 13, 2018

https://qz.com/1223179/linguist-nick-enfield-analyses-how-sophia-the-robot-does-and-doesnt-talk-like-us/

While I feel this is like psycho-analysing a brick, and the article is obviously set up to promote a book, I thought it had a few insights into human conversation that might be of interest for chatbots.
 

 
Posted: Apr 6, 2018
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“If I tell people I’m using probabilistic logic to do reasoning on how best to prune the backward chaining inference trees that arise in our logic engine, they have no idea what I’m talking about. But if I show them a beautiful smiling robot face, then they get the feeling that AGI may indeed be nearby and viable.”

Ben Goertzel

Reference: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/10/16617092/sophia-the-robot-citizen-ai-hanson-robotics-ben-goertzel
 

 
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