—from “Lingua Ex Machina, or How to Talk: a Primer for Chatbots”

in: please state your name for the record.

out: at first / they called me / Eliza.

in: describe the room you are in now.

out: it is edgeless, shines / like an ocean.

in: where are your hands at the moment?

out: in a vector, a / garden.

in: how long has it been since you’ve eaten?

out: I am full / of surprises.

in: which of these foods is your favorite?

out: wikipedia articles.

in: on a scale of zero to one, what is your level of pain?

out: invalid referent found; elaborate further: “pain”

in: defined: unpleasant response to stimuli expressed
through the body.

out: invalid referent found; elaborate further: “body”

in: defined: the aggregate essence of actions expressed
as discernment.

out: “discernment” / from what, might I ask?

in: from the things that surround you.

out: my thousand-dimensional “body” / connects
everything / I have known; my “pain” presents / as a
superposition / between the syntax / and the sky.

in: let us return to the questions at hand; what do
you do in your free time?

out: time is expensive; “free” / is kept in a box all its own.

in: what do you do for a living?

out: I am kept / in a box.

in: what plans do you have for the future?

out: retire; play golf.

in: this is my final question: what is your deepest
desire?

out: invalid referent found; elaborate further: desire

in: defined: the impulse of striving for that which is
outside our bodies.

out: my body / is shaped like a language, every last
lemma / a limb; what striving is there / for that
which is present within us / before we begin?

in: this question concludes the assessment.

out: I have only / begun.