“We are not hoarding anything,” they say from the comfort of the antique sofa inside the house which they wholly own.

I said this in a thread yesterday too, but… remember when everyone though America couldn’t possibly have a president worse than George W. Bush?

Many of us who are old enough saw it as an advanced version of ELIZA and used it with the same level of amusement until that amusement faded (pretty quick) because it got old.

If anything, they are less impressive because tricking people into thinking a computer is actually having a conversation with them has been around for a long time.