Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years
My favourite flaw of chatbots is exposed by ELIZA.  Not chatting with ELIZA, (though, it does suffer this flaw) but using responses inspired by that program.<p>&quot;Please elaborate on that&quot; or &quot;tell me more about [noun]&quot; etc.  Bots appear to have zero lines of short term memory, and utterly fail to pick up a reference to the thing that they just said.  My favorite being<p><pre><code>   bot&gt; [something plausibly human-sounding]

   me&gt; What do you mean by [noun in previous sentence]

   bot&gt; why are you calling me mean?  That really hurts my feelings
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It has been a few years, and I feel like a smart bot-writer might be able to leverage something like GPT3 to at least include a little bit more of the current transcript into the prompt to at least superficially address this gaping flaw.  Have they?