"Dean A. Markley" wrote in
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Now you have me wondering if a mentally ill bot is possible.....

Of course it is. PARRY was written to mimic the responses of a patient
suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. I think it was Douglas Hofstadter
who had the idea of hooking up a copy of ELIZA (written to mimic the
responses of a Rogerian psychotherapist) with one of PARRY and seeing how
they got on.

RACTER, the author of the first book written by a computer program ("The
Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed") has been described by its aithor as
an exercise in AI, standing for Artificial Insanity.

All the best,

John.