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Knock Knock. Who's there?

Posted on August 17, 2007

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way. Jack HandeyA joke is a uniquely human experience, or so we've always thought. Humour like Handey's draws on such a wealth of human experience, emotion and understanding that it's hard to imagine artificial intelligence systems (or some people) ever getting to grips with it.So what should we make of the announcement by researchers at the University of Cincinnati this week that they have created a chatbot...

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