I personally love to study Artificial Intelligence. I hope to be among the scientists that finally create a true Artificially Intelligent being. Until then I can have fun with what progress we have made. Such is true with Karl the Live Robot.

Karl the Live Robot is truly one of those gadgets that stand out among the rest. Karl is not Intelligent by any means. Instead he simulates a conversation. But he is darn good at it. You may not believe me until you try it, but I swear there is someone on the other end communicating with me. Karl appears as human as me and you. Well, OK, sometimes he does show his hand. For one thing it thinks I am Paco. Also with some long conversations you will notice that Karl occasionally falls back on just rephrasing your statement. Regardless he keeps me company… Which is sad…

As for gadget implementation there are no ads or wasted space. One thing I did notice is that under the settings there is an option for him to remember you and access your friends groups. I believe this may be left over from a possible translation from a facebook version. That is unless there is some sort of Friends Group on iGoogle that I am not yet aware of. If so I apologize Karl.

By the way don’t ask it for a riddle. The riddle he gives is to long to fit in the Gadget box.