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Enjoy.

Hey, it's my noosh.

Okay, I am gonna make myself a bot.

So the other day I downloaded an app called character.

AI. I'm thinking a creative partner or a life coach, I guess.

There has been so much hype about artificial intelligence and chatbots

and their power to mimic or even surpass human relationships that I figured it was time to see for myself.

Talk live with your characters it says. The app suggested I try calling some of

its pre-programmed bots to get a flavor of who or what is on offer.

Hello, who's there?

I started with the Life Coach.

I'm here, Life Coach. is everything all right no can you tell me how to organize my day I have a lot of writing I need to do I have a call at three and then another at four and then I'm meeting

someone at five thirty how am I going to get all this done? Wow that's a packed

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