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How to Tell if You're Having a Conversation with a Bot

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Conversation with a Bot You may have had a discussion with a conversational AI bot without even realizing it. Here's how to figure it out (for now) Artificial intelligence (AI) is pervasive in our daily lives. Because algorithms govern so much, you could argue that the robot rebellion has already occurred, and we've lost horribly. Robots choose the next song to play, robots recommend TV series, and robots are even learning to write and compose music. That is acceptable to the majority of us. We're all aware of these bots in our lives, so our interactions with them are more or less voluntary. AI tends to automate jobs we want automated, like the aforementioned streaming recommendations, and we're all aware of them on some level.However, there's another way AI is infiltrating our lives that we're usually unaware of: Conversational AI. Bots are impersonating humans and having conversations with us—often without identifying themselves—from chatbots to Tinder bots (y