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To: E. Graphs who wrote (7684)	4/11/1999 12:40:00 PM
From: E. Graphs	Respond to of 29970

Shallow Red is really very pleasant to chat with. Try it out! neuromedia.com I think AtHome should get it to help out with its heavy load of inquiries from customers wanting AtHome service, and also to help with FAQ and small problems. Now, if we could only get it to do installations......

To: E. Graphs who wrote (7684)	4/11/1999 2:52:00 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Oh boy, can we get one of these for the thread to answer every time someone asks...when is the split? So far, no program has been developed that can pass the Turing test consistently. But since the 1960s, programmers have been devising ever more sophisticated software to make small talk in the hope that one might do so. (The current front-runner, a program called Mabel, fools people, after a four-minute chat, for 24% of the time.) Until recently such programs—known variously as “software robots”, “chatterbots” or simply “bots”—have been of little more than academic interest. But now an unexpected use for them is emerging: dispensing information over the Internet.