A Robot Comes Close to passing the Turing Test

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...but given the text of this conversation it's hard to see how:

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not knowing anything about computers I don't know how impressive a program approaching this close to giving coherent answers to random questions is, but it still seems as if it would be difficult to mistake it for a person, unless, I suppose, you had decided it was a person trying to trick you into thinking it was a computer?

Gussied up ELIZA FTL.

Jabberwacky may be a bit less coherent, but still a superior chatbot in my completely unqualified opinion.

Jabberwacky is certainly a better name anyway.