OFF) no "strangers" in here, just lettin' ya'll know/ A.ANDROID voiceover

[Nathan Gilbert]

Actually, it seems the story is a bit more bizarre. The "chat-bot" was
actually a real live person, but working in a call center in India or
somewhere. In order to negate any accent issues, the call center made
the employees use a program that had a bunch of pre-recorded phrases
in that sterile voice.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-only-thing-weirder-than-a-telemarketing-robot/282282/

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 2:18 PM, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/19/13, Nathan Gilbert <nathan.gilbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> . These bots are nothing
>> more than a collection of pattern recognition algorithms and if/then
>> clauses, basically on the par with the intelligence of a thermostat.
>> Not the kind of intelligence we find meaningful.
>
> Apparently the chatbot I heard was award winning programming (for lack
> of the correct term), originating in Italy  Apparently as soon as
> "she" was "busted", she mysterriously disappeared- after the man
> continually insisted that he needed to hear her actually SAY "I am NOT
> a robot".
>
> According to the conspirecy oriented radio show this could be a coming
> problem :)
>
> she was ditzy, but it was still a bit freaky, I thought :)