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Automated Conversation Coach Helps Humans Become Less Creepy

Posted June 26, 2013 1:11 PM

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Using behavior analysis software and a 3D character, MIT has developed a system that may help the socially awkward become a little more people friendly.

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06/26/2013 2:19 PM

Now, you, too can be a perfect person.

All you need is this: Need a Self-Esteem Boost? Look at Your Facebook Profile and the instant "clever line coach" to have people slobbering all over themselves to be near you, you perfect thing, you.

That laptop screen and ear buds may get in the way if you want to get serious about hooking up with one, or more, of your new found suitors.

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06/26/2013 3:14 PM

I want to be a hermit. Where is a life coaching robot to help me out with that?

I have tried being creepy, rude, selfish, lazy, egotistical, ignorant, and demeaning but so far all its done is get me lots of offers to become a manager.

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06/26/2013 3:57 PM

A little creative makeup can send people away in horrified gasps, thus assuring hermitification....

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06/26/2013 10:52 PM

I tried that once. All it did was get me more attention.

Everybody wants to know what happened.

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06/27/2013 1:56 AM

Well your already in N Dakota.....I guess you could move to Montana....

Hey what are these things???

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06/27/2013 9:57 AM

The bottom picture is our badlands. It's an area of our state that experienced massive erosion issues when the last ice age ended and the glaciers melted rather quickly around 10,000 years ago.

The mounds are areas of hard packed clay that doesn't erode as easily as the rest of the land.

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