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6 Post author: ancientcampus 26 August 2014 02:47AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 August 2014 04:41:43AM 3 points [-]

invisiblegirlfriend.com and invisibleboyfriend.com are not self aware computers. But they include computers pretending to be human.

There are a few humans that beat all other humans at chess. There are a few machines that beat those humans. Those machines and all the humans are beat by human / computer teams, where a computer does what it does best (run through many options) and so do humans (make the final choice on machine suggested moves). The above services seem like this - a human / computer team designed to play a (social) game well.

I'd place this in the arena of immediate and real world friendly AI research.

I have no affiliation with these commercial services.