<P>A ROBOT chat machine so life-like many people are fooled into thinking it's human has become the latest internet sensation.

<P>The world's most sophisticated "chatbot" - invented by British scientists - can talk on the internet with hundreds of different people at the same time, but each person has the impression that it is only talking to them.

<P><I>The Scotsman article: </I><A HREF="http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1303512006" TARGET=_New CLASS=ph>http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1303512006</A>

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