Blogger James Bach was so unimpressed by the contrived and seemingly scripted responses to his typed questions to the Web Greeter site that be became convinced he was talking to an unthinking chatbot rather than a human.

We checked out the site. The robotic “welcome” message does give that impression at first, but web greeter Alex assured me that the “Turing test does not apply to humans” and that “if a company was using such a technology, it wouldn’t be using XTs.” That should clear that up. :) – Ed.