To illustrate what the AI does I'll be using several excerpts from a single, long conversation that someone had recently with George. In each conversation, the person is in Orange, and George is in Yellow:
You don't know if I am real or not.
You're real enough.
Thank you, you sound quite real as well. I guess we both majored in our Turing test.
Next time the testers test you, you should beat them with a big stick.
Social implications
I can only read a small percentage of logs, but this one stood out as part of something unusual, and socially-interesting - hundreds of hours worth of conversation from a small group of friends in a very short time. One of them, on their own, spent 17 hours talking - and, amazingly, it was all in the last 4 days!
Why?
How can people spend so much time talking to a program? Firstly, the obvious - they only can if it offers sufficient meaning to avoid frustration, and sufficient variety to be interesting. But really they do it for the sheer fun of it, and they get hooked!
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