Is There a Difference Between a Real Counsellor and an Artificial Counsellor?

There's a lot of people trying to make machines feel things. And they're not doing a brilliant job, because it's a very difficult thing to do. It's things like having artificial counsellors. People don't know that they are speaking to an artificial in artificially feeling and artificiall intelligent counsellor. Not in person. The voices aren't good enough yet. But with typing, if they have a real counsellor and an artificial it's almost impossible for people to know the difference. There's also some pets that are so lifelike in their responses, these robot pets, that people who have been demoing them have refused to switch them off. W these

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