[Ads-l] Future of conversation

[Joel Berson]

Bots can hold up their side of a conversation.  My TV doesn't talk back to me. ... Or perhaps it's the previous generation's model, and newer ones do have conversational ability (by which I mean they can respond to what I say).

Joel


      From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 2:10 PM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Future of conversation
   
Talking to bots is going to replace watching TV?

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Unless they are the same thing...
>
> On Jun 11, 2017 9:36 AM, "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > KPMG commercial:
> >
> > "By 2020 the average person will have more conversations with bots than
> > with their spouse."
> >
> > JL
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
> >
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