clipped from: www.news.com.au September 25, 2006 10:58am
He has gifts: the ability to speak in 40 languages and with 2000 people at the same time.
George is a piece of software, arguably the best of the speaking "chatbots" or talking robots, and he's recently received the Loebner prize in Britain, a scientific award recognising the machines best capable of matching the most realistic human dialogues with their own.
There's just one quirk: he doesn't really exist.