Learn about how easily I can be fooled when romance is involved. Plus maybe something about philosophy of mind and important concepts in artificial intelligence: How can we test if computers are getting intelligent? How do we know if we are even intelligent?
Most of these questions can be answered all in only 90 seconds. You should check out the Chinese room argument (in the Further Readings section below), for more information on this aspect of philosophy of mind.
The Turing Test: Computers that Trick You into Loving Them (Podcast #010)
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Sources / Further Reading:
Wikipedia: Turing test
A.L.I.C.E.: An award winning chat bot (still pretty stupid sounding)
Wikipedia: Chinese Room (more on philosophy of mind, related directly to the Turing Test, very interesting concept)
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