[wwweston]

>I was also researching AI in Forth, implementing ideas from LISP examples and doing expert systems and neural nets and mixing them and building robots. In the software I added a layer for an inference engine for English language descriptions of rule sets and a layer for the rules. I wrote a learning email report and conversation engine AI program and had it running for a few months. My boss could not distinguish it from me. That was my idea of AI, smart enough to do my job for me and get paid at my salary while I took a vacation.

Is the author exaggerating here, or did they actually succeed at writing something that could pass whatever Turing test level his boss could offer?

If it's the latter, what then-current knowledge would they likely have sourced?

[ianamartin]

He’s throwing shade on his former boss

[brokenkebab]

I can't know what the author means, but the thing which is known as chatbots now is very old tech, in fact:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA (1966)