The following dialogue was produced entirely by a computer running two different programs, with no human intervention once both programs had been started. The words in bold were produced by the voice-recognition program ViaVoice by IBM, which was responding to a radio broadcasting both music and speech in several languages. The `responses' in plain text were produced by a version of Eliza, an artificial intelligence program written by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in 1966, which was responding to the input from the ViaVoice program. What follows is not a conversation (there being no two-way flow of information between the two programs) but a double act of `listening' and interpretation by two human-created automata imperfectly equipped to handle the undifferentiated data fed to them. This piece was partly inspired by Warren Burt's Racter and Eliza, a composition which actually does set two AI programs against each other.

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what is it that you really want to know?
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what does that suggest to you?

Ben.Harper, 1999