To Truly Fake Intelligence, Chatbots Need To Be Able To Change Your Mind

Could you ever imagine yourself in a heated argument with a chatbot? Like, really passionate, deeply reasoned position-taking--argument, counterargument, countercounterargument, countercountercounterargument. Could you imagine a chatbot convincing a jury of a defendant's guilt? And if you could imagine it, what would that mean? Questions like these are at the core of a paper published recently in AI Matters by Samira Shaikh, a computer science-slash-psychology researcher at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.