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I, Replicant: Artificial Intelligence and Me — A Selective Stroll with AI in Fiction and Beyond

Despite the admonitions of science fiction, artificial intelligence researchers can’t seem to help themselves from working closer and closer to sentience or at least singularity.

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Phone Drones: Virtual Agents Answer Customer Service Call of Duty

That a large portion of one’s customer service call are outsourced to India or other exotic locales is old news. We ‘ve all been patched through to a phone bank half a planet away to speak with someone trained to suppress their native accent and make references to your local weather and high school sports…