What's amazing is that at a fundamental, overall level, this is really not significantly better than the chatbots of the turn of the century I played with as a

What's amazing is that at a fundamental, overall level, this is really not significantly better than the chatbots of the turn of the century I played with as a child. I'm specifically thinking of markov chain bots, which were easy to code from scratch. This is definitely better than that, of course, but like, not really that much more. Not in a usable and meaningful way. It still fundamentally feels like you're just leading the bot on a blind text search of a corpus and unable to get anything "real" out of it. 25 years with little to show for it. I think it would make sense to hold off and look for more fundamental advances, than to continue to polish the turd that is chatbots.