The Magic 8 Ball (invented in 1946) also confabulate not hallucinate. It is just a evergreen hype to attach human properties (in a psychiatric context... brain

The Magic 8 Ball (invented in 1946) also confabulate not hallucinate. It is just a evergreen hype to attach human properties (in a psychiatric context... brain damage... amnesiac patient...) to objects that have zero connection to human intellect. IBM Watson from 2010 won Jeopardy. Markov Chains were described in 1906 and used for a long time to simulate human activities (including simulation of blabbering of mentally handicapped). In Ancient Rome there were "talking boards" (some kind of Ouija boards) to predict the successor to the king. It is just a tendency for perception to do such associations, similar to pareidolia.