Who Do You Think You Are: Chatting With Bots, and the Sexuality Spectrum

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Scientific American

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4.2 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2007

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this episode, pyschologist Robert Epstein talks about his articles in the upcoming issue of Scientific American Mind, on being fooled by a chatterbot--a computer program designed to make you think you're communicating with a human--and on the spectrum of human sexuality. And he has some comments about the CBS TV program "Kid Nation." Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.audible.com/sciencetalk; www.drepstein.com; www.sciammind.com; blog.sciam.com; www.news.wisc.edu/14162 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.
0:02.3	Hiya.
0:02.9	So, Benny has really blossomed this term.
0:05.6	You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.
0:09.6	Oh, that's not quite what I meant.
0:11.1	It's free to sell on there.
0:12.3	Free to sell?
0:13.4	Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.
0:16.8	You sold my guitar?
0:19.9	Shall we talk about Benning?
0:22.1	When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.
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1:04.5	Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting September 26th.
1:11.3	I'm Steve Murski. This week on the podcast, we'll talk about sex. There, that got your attention.
1:16.8	Dr. Robert Epstein will join us to discuss his two articles in the upcoming issue of
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