Link (Motherboard)
Turns the tables on the more familiar screed of “Its hard to make a chatbot!”.
A nice article with mentions of some of the Usual Suspects (Chatscript rising?!).
This one hit particularly close to home
Fittingly, Bruce gave me two pieces of advice for crafting a giveaway bot-like response to complex inputs: “make general non-sequiturs” and “answer [the] question by finding the most useless noun or verb in the sentence and waxing lyrical about it.”