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That was altogether pretty lame. Having done some NLP and chatterbot development in the past, I don't see anything here out of the ordinary. In fact, it seems as though they're just trying to impress folks who don't know any better.

People like them (Cognitive Code) give AI research a bad name. As always, put up or shutup.

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His questions covered only very narrow territory. But she was able to connect different parts of the conversation quite well. If you call that lame you're going to run out of words to describe 90 % of the software that's being created (including much of what I've done myself to be honest)

Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is crap.

This applies especially to attempts at NLP.

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