If something already characterizes this third decade of the 21st century it’s Artificial Intelligence, commonly referred to as AI. The increasingly popular chatbots are the de facto liaisons between humans and machines. Though lacking consciousness or self-awareness (as of right now), these autonomous techie assistants do show some personality patterns in the way they interact with and provide answers to users’ requests. Of course, the resulting conversations are, well, synthetic —they mostly regurgitate facts harvested from humanity’s intellect (or even generate inaccurate “facts” sometimes)—, but…Continue Reading “A conversation with a chatbot”