Do Chatbots Get Us Any Closer To Human-Level Artificial Intelligence?

For AI to mirror human intelligence, it must perceive the world like we do.

AI chatbots are getting so good people are starting to see them as human. Several users have recently called the bots their best friends, others have professed their love, and a Google engineer even helped one hire a lawyer. From a product standpoint, these bots are extraordinary. But from a research perspective, the people dreaming about AI reaching hu…