[snarkpup]

Back in the 1970s there was a time when Eliza was available to the public via dial-up computer teletype. You could call it up, feed it whatever sentences you wanted and watch the result.

At the same time, there was a program called "yow" that came with the emacs distribution. It was a command-line program that, when invoked, produced a random quote from Zippy the Pinhead.

It was easy to put the two together and let Eliza function as a psychiatrist for Zippy. After a few minutes of this, Eliza would be producing remarks like "Is this related to the fact that your favorite group is Question Mark and the Mysterians?"

[Red Badger]

I am not surprised at MS AI winding up like it did.
What they failed to do was program in skepticism and weighting of input data to see if it was real or true.

Starting off as naive as a teenage girl, and believing everything it ‘reads’ on the internet, not throwing anything out, it becomes what it reads, much like a real adolescent....................