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This hour of Radi­o­lab, Jad and Robert meet humans and robots who are try­ing to con­nect, and blur the line.

We begin with a love sto­ry – from a man who unwit­ting­ly fell in love with a chat­bot on an online dat­ing site. Then, we encounter a robot ther­a­pist whose inven­tor became so unnerved by its suc­cess that he pulled the plug. And we talk to the man who cod­ed Cle­ver­bot, a soft­ware pro­gram that learns from every new line of con­ver­sa­tion it receives…and that’s chat­ting with more than 3 mil­lion humans each month. Then, five intre­pid kids help us test a hypoth­e­sis about a toy designed to push our but­tons, and play on our human empa­thy. And we meet a robot built to be so sen­tient that its cre­ators hope it will one day have a con­scious­ness, and a life, all its own.