Joy Beeson writes:

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:52:19 -0500, Tim McNamara
wrote:

Oddly enough, in the (thus far rather small) samples, there is at least
a subset of the population much more comfortable with talking to the bot
rather than a human therapist. I don't get it, . . .

I do. When you're through spilling your guts to a bot, you can erase
it.

Isn't that why people talk to their cats?

And you can be quite certain that it isn't giggling at you.

Well, dogs anyway.

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