Excerpt from a conversation with CleverBot, a web application that uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to chat back and forth.

Cleverbot: You want me to quest for a good film?

User: Quest? Sure!

Cleverbot: Yes. What is your quest.

User: My quest is to find a good idea for a mobile game.

Cleverbot: You are a female?

User: Yes.

Cleverbot: What do you look like?

User: Wow, that’s the stereotypical response online!

Cleverbot: Yes it is.

User: Ugh.

Cleverbot: ‘ugh’ is not a proper response.

User: Neither is ‘what do you look like’ when told I’m female.