[mizzao]

Something like this was bound to happen at some point; I think it's much better that it happened with a chatbot than an AI system that could actually control (physical) things other than a Twitter account. I think it's a landmark in the history of AI and a valuable lesson for system designers going forward.

Also, a lot of people are saying "well, of course that was obvious". But it really wasn't, because there was a huge team working on this with past experience building a conversational agent. The armchair theorists forget that it always looks obvious to Captain Hindsight.