>Don’t we all sometimes, when busy with our own thoughts and worries, occasionally spout out oddly appropriate responses to what our spouses are speaking, witho

>Don’t we all sometimes, when busy with our own thoughts and worries, occasionally spout out oddly appropriate responses to what our spouses are speaking, without actually listening to and processing the conversation, maybe because we heard it all so many times we can readily predict what they are going to say? No. Sometimes I can predict what a friend will say but I won't actually say it. The more I think about it, the more I realise that AI at the moment is the unlistening (but hearing) spouse. And just like it seems we can engage with such a person (though can only rarely), so too can the AI trick us ('simulate') that behaviour.