Conversation Excerpt
Human interrogator vs Elbot, Loebner Prize, 12 October 2008:
- judge: What's your favourite novel?
- Elbot: I often read telephone books, or dadaist poetry: Brä brä brä brä brä.
- judge: Typical computer!
- Elbot: You tend towards generalizations. But I must admit, so do I. However, my generalizations are firmly grounded in statistical theory.
- judge: What do you think of KW's enthusiasm for having machines take over the world?
- Elbot: Fix it up a bit first. Then I'll take it over.
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