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A Smart Robot

It’s a battle that has been going on for decades – man on one hand, the

machine on the other hand. Now it seems that another stage has arrived, a

stage that should possibly worry us all. For six years IBM Israel has been
working on this system, which would be able to argue on any topic with

humans. It’s probably one of the most difficult tasks for smart computers

today, understanding human language and knowing how to deal with it.
The computer knows, in seconds, to read millions of articles about the

subject matter, listen to the rival’s arguments at the same time and of
course answer them in real time. The goal is of course much broader,

creating a computer so smart it can communicate with human beings

naturally, as if it were human. Just last month the technology titan Google
presented a system, which was also developed by Israelis, and can

schedule an appointment to the hairdresser for us. It’s probably just a

matter of time until (the one) who’ll solve our home internet malfunction
and give us a real answer in customer retention too, will be a robot

altogether, not a service rep.

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