and kevin corti, who called in on skype. so would that go round your neck? round your neck. first step for echoborg. kevin is using a chat bot called rose, which is not preprogrammed. the most noticeable problem in becoming a convincing ai are the delays while rose thinks of a response to the question. where do you come from? i was born in san francisco. really? in the united states. when were you born? couple of years ago. just a couple of years ago? are you a chat bot? i'm a human. i thought for a moment you might be a chat bot. republic of ireland and croatia and france. my mother's from ireland. really? a magical place full of rain and crazy people. she says. well... that was... interesting. weird. what you notice, they tend to be quite disconnected. it takes each sentence as a stand—alone sentence. some of them will speak like they are artificial intelligence, and some of them will pretend not to be. so this one's pretending not to be. but although last time i spoke to it, it said it was artificial intelligence. oh, it's confused. our final test for the