I had a real-life experience with this phenomenon recently, when I got a robocall made by an interactive voice responder. The dialog at first sounded almost hu

I had a real-life experience with this phenomenon recently, when I got a robocall made by an interactive voice responder. The dialog at first sounded almost human, but there was something that was just a bit off with the responses not quite matching my questions. Typically I like to play around with telemarketers, keeping them on the line for a while, asking dumb questions etc. instead of just hanging up on them -- especially if it sounds like a scam to begin with. But in this case it was either a well done chat bot that I was talking to, or now that I think of it (more likely) someone had a bunch of pre-recorded phrases that they would choose as responses (I can see this being done by an offshore telemarketing pit).