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I just read that IBM's Watson would have a hard time answering questions like "tell me about your first kiss." If you asked a modern, state-of-the-art chatbot questions like "tell me about a song that means a lot to you and why" or "tell me about a time when you felt vulnerable" would the chatbot be able to answer in ways that would fool non-experts into thinking that it was human? Are questions like this good candidates for the Turing test?

I am not asking a philosophical question about if it is POSSIBLE to generate an AI that could represent a complex internal emotional state. I am asking: given the state-of-the-art research in 2013: how close are current researchers to generating AI that could pass the Turing test?

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Great Question! One area to look into is Cognitive Architectures. These are computer programs that solve AI problems by modeling how humans think and feel (emotion). Here is a brief overview.

Prior to the mid-1980s the study of AI was concerned with creating general intelligent systems modeled after flexible human thinking (Fahlman, 2012). Researchers in AI used findings in cognitive psychology to guide their work.

Currently, there has been a shift away from this approach. The current trend in AI research is towards solving problems with

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