Move over, SmarterChild: Facebook has released an open-source chatbot called Blender that’s meant to mimic human speech patterns and empathy. The bot is called Blender because it uses a novel AI task ...

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The virtual assistants that inhabit our smartphones are helpful, sure, but they’re not going to pass the Turing test any time soon. They’re designed for understanding specific commands and actions ...

Adrian has been a tech enthusiast since the 90s with a particular passion for gaming that developed thanks to his first gaming outings on Pong, Zork and Space Invaders. In the years that followed he ...

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