Talking Angela programmer talks hoaxes, AI mastery (Q&A) ift.tt/1d5VAz1 Talking Angela (Credit: Screenshot by CNET) If youre not a parent or teenager, its possible you first heard of Talking Angela because of a meme spreading virally on Facebook that it was a front for a pedophilia ring. In fact, Talking Angela is a hugely popular artificial intelligence chatbot, a talking cat, aimed at teenagers, and the hoax has been fully repudiated. Available for iOS and Android, Talking Angela has been downloaded more than 57 million times. But thanks to word going around about the pedophilia hoax, the app jumped to No. 3 on the iTunes iPhone charts. On the one hand, its scandalous that someone was able to create a viral meme that claimed such a popular (and technologically impressive) project had such dark motives. But on the other, its been somewhat of a boon for Out Fit7, Talking Angelas publisher. Perhaps more importantly, its brought a lot of attention to the idea that it is really, really hard to create an intelligent chatbot, one that can conceivably fool a human being into thinking theyre talking to another person. B... [Read more]
Posted on: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:36:01 +0000
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