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Amanda, The Computerized Telemarketer Who Insisted She Was Human

January 14, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

“The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.”― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot I just had the strangest conversation with a telemarketer. Well, actually I’m not sure I can consider it a conversation—because I’m sure the telemarketer was not even human. It was an exchange that quickly turned into a kind of Turing test, with a […]

Categories: Cyborgs, Fakes and Forgeries, Language, Scripts • Tags: Issac Asimov, lifegivingmoments.com, robocalls, Sarah Palin, telemarketing, Turing test

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