radiolab | We begin with a love story--from a man who unwittingly fell in love with
a chatbot on an online dating site. Then, we encounter a robot
therapist whose inventor became so unnerved by its success that he
pulled the plug. And we talk to the man who coded Cleverbot, a software
program that learns from every new line of conversation it
receives...and that's chatting with more than 3 million humans each
month. Then, five intrepid kids help us test a hypothesis about a toy
designed to push our buttons, and play on our human empathy. And we meet
a robot built to be so sentient that its creators hope it will one day
have a consciousness, and a life, all its own.
