[dcist]

Yes, I remember Dr. Sbaitso very, very well. I spent many hours with it as a kid and thought it was tons of fun. To be frank, Dr. Sbaitso is why I was underwhelmed when chatbots were hyped in the early 2010s. I couldn't understand why anyone would be excited about 90s tech.

[Mistletoe]

Chatting with ALICE is what has tempered my ChatGPT hype. It was neat and seemed like magic, but I think it was in the 90s when I tried it. I'm sure for new people it feels like an unprecedented event to talk to a computer and it seem sentient.

https://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=b8d616e35e36e...

Like other bogus things like tarot or horoscopes, it's amazing what you can discover when you talk about something, it asks you questions, and what you want or desire eventually floats to the surface. And now people are even more lonely...

>Human: do you like video games

>A.L.I.C.E: Not really, but I like to play the Turing Game.

[jhbadger]

Really just 1960s tech. Dr. Sbaitso was really just a version of ELIZA with the only new part being the speech synthesis.