That's right. Your tax dollars are going to the development of AI so sophisticated that you think it's a human being. And how are they going to test it? By throwing it into the proverbial online fire that is World of Warcraft. So next time you yell for a healbot you might actually get one! Oh, and they're also making some other leaps in technology that could possibly change the face of modern warfare as well.

Last but not least, the Army's trying to create "virtual soldiers" who look, act and sound like the real thing, independently.

"I actually interact with virtual humans in terms of asking them questions and they're responding," Parmentola told Military.com.

The best place to test these virtual soldiers? Online role-playing games such as "World of Warcraft," of course.

"We want to use the massively multi-player online game as an experimental laboratory to see if they're good enough to convince humans that they're actually human," Parmentola explained.

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