Time AI learned to shoot the breeze? Microsoft works on tech to spark human-robot conversations - TechRepublic

Microsoft and Facebook have teamed up with US university researchers to train a computer to simulate that same human curiosity and ask similar questions when presented with photos. Their results varied, with some systems better at generating human-like questions than others. At their best, a system asked, "Was anybody hurt in this accident?" At their worst, another posited the nonsensical, ''What caused the fall?' when shown the aftermath of a hurricane. You can see other examples of the machine-generated questions below, labelled GRNN and KNN.