Robot trafficking criminals pedophiles on the net

Scientists at the University of Deusto (Spain) have created the Negobot - a robot that plays a 14-year-old girl to hunt pedophiles on chat rooms, promising to ease the burden. cop.

Negobot using software intelligence artificial (AI) to be able to chat and imitate the language of youth, including the use of slang and spelling mistakes and try to find evidence that the objects are pedophiles . Upon entering the chatroom, where suspected pedophiles are active, Negobot starts the conversation as a passive person. But then it adjusts itself to adapt to the seductive techniques of the suspects, in order to build trust and build friendships with criminals.

For example, when the suspect starts trapping, the robot responds to the flirting by asking for personal information, just as it is to investigate the suspect. The collected information includes social profiles, mobile numbers will be used by the police to conduct the investigation.

So far, the software has been tested on Google's chat service and can be translated into other languages.