Eusebesia and Ludwig sit at home in Brussels staring at two monitors for hours on end.
When one sees something, she or he might make a grunt or sound. The other then agrees if he or she would have said the same — and disagrees otherwise, of course.
In such exchanges, Luc Steels argued, the two robots (dubbed "talking heads") created the first autonomous artificial language in 1999.
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