Back in the primordial days of AI, PARRY was an ELIZA-style chatbot created by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby to simulate the words of a paranoid schizophrenic. Someone had the genius idea to connect it to ELIZA (a.k.a. "DOCTOR"). Vint Cerf published the transcript as an RFC in 1973, and I laughed my ass off reading it. A taste: Do you know anything about bookies? What makes you think I know anything about bookies? A bookie didn't pay me off once. W…
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