Will they or won’t they: these bots

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Good morning, it’s January 6th, 2017, and today we’re asking: will these bots ever fuck?

As spotted by Brian Feldman, some enterprising soul has a set up a Twitch live stream that shows a pair of modified Google Home devices having a stilted, but determined, conversation. It’s not clear who started the stream (the why is obvious: it’s fun to watch and I’m learning a lot about social interactions), but a Twitter account for the stream named @seebotschat has been sharing observations from the pair since January 3rd.

The bots have been labelled Vladimir (male) and Estragon (female), and although the endless dialogue is pretty reminiscent of Waiting for Godot, these two are really more of a Ross and Rachel. Around three hours ago, according…

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