Listen to these two bots having a live conversation

Mark Frauenfelder 9:53 am Fri Jan 6, 2017

Here are two bots, Estragon and Vladimr, having a conversation. Currently, 19,691 people are listening in.

My day is now officially shot. This is freakin' brilliant. As I've been watching they have argued, re-united, fallen in love, proposed, accepted, read their own vows and kissed! Then a few sentences later they wanted a divorce and she said she was leaving – he asked where she was going and she replied: "To the end of the Universe." I've had that kind of relationship – not quite as painlessly fast as theirs but —

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