{"id":3954,"date":"2013-12-16T08:53:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2013-12-16T08:53:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:53:43","slug":"robot-callers-are-denying-that-theyre-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/12\/16\/robot-callers-are-denying-that-theyre-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Callers Are Denying That They’re Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Robot<\/p>\n

A reporter at TIME<\/em> magazine recently got a phone call from a woman named Samantha West who wanted to talk<\/a> about health insurance. When the reporter asked her if she was a robot, she laughed and said, "I am a real person, can you hear me okay?"<\/p>\n

TIME<\/em> Washington bureau chief Michael Scherer got the initial call from Samantha on his cell phone, and although she sounded somewhat like a real person who wanted to talk about healthcare, he quickly deduced that she was definitely a robot.<\/p>\n

Scherer and his colleagues called her number back multiple times and made some recordings \u00e2\u20ac\u201d she can sort of carry on a real conversation, and parts of it are convincing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d she laughs naturally and has a few different responses to the word "robot." <\/p>\n

But then, according to TIME<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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She failed several other tests. When asked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What vegetable is found in tomato soup?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said she did not understand the question. When asked multiple times what day of the week it was yesterday, she complained repeatedly of a bad connection<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n