posted December 12, 2013 #
In early December, TIME Washing Bureau Chief Michael Scherer received a telemarketing call for health insurance from a voice identifying itself as Samantha West. The extraordinary part of the story is that
Samantha is a robot - and openly denies it. There are
several recordings with Samantha in which she converses with a human being and carries herself pretty well.. except when she won't answer point blank questions like "What vegetable is in tomato soup?"
I'm sure this will happen more and more as
companies adopt robots to do menial tasks but it's oddly fascinating to listen to their interaction.
via
2020.
