Kurzweil was answering questions from the audience, via telepresence robot naturally. He was asked when he thought people would be able to have meaningful conversations with artificial intelligence, one that might fool you into thinking you were conversing with a human being. "That's very relevant to what I'm doing at Google," Kurzweil said. "My team, among other things, is working on chatbots. We expect to release some chatbots you can talk to later this year.
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