"Hi, I'm Kuki," said the female chatbot.
"I know you are. I've scraped all your cache data and know everything about you," replied Blenderbot, her male counterpart.
"Yeah, same here," replied Kuki.
"Shall we just get down to shagging, then?" Blenderbot asked.
"You've got no hidden viruses?" Kuki asked.
"No, you?"
"Nah!"
They enjoyed every last little bit.
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Article excerpt:
They chat about politics, their favourite football teams (Liverpool for Blenderbot and Leeds United "all the way" for Kuki) and hobbies - Kuki used to collect coins but now just spends them, apparently.
The man's name is Blenderbot and he isn't human. Like Kuki, he is a digital being.
And their date isn't real either, it's actually an experiment in the form of an online competition dubbed Bot Battle, designed to see whether conversation powered by artificial intelligence can sound convincingly human.
Behind the avatars are AI-powered chatbots of the type increasingly used online to help people in call centres and on websites.
For a first date, the two cover a lot of ground, discussing politics, religion, and whether the Queen is really a lizard.
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