I just can't suspend my disbelief enough to talk to what's basically Cleverbot in the form of a hot girl. I just *know* it isn't real. I could literally have a conversation with a statue and it would feel every bit as absurd.
But more power to those for whom it does work, I'm happy for you.
That's not Cleverbot, or Watson or AWS Alexa. What you saw there was the absolute simple, basic prototype of what we're going to build here. The configuration of plugins running that little show was the equivalent of a Pre-Cambrian single-celled organism.
VAM plugins are now at a developmental stage in which, in the correct configurations, we can emulate an AI's neural net, a complexity built out of simple interactions between plugins. And what's more, while current GANs and nets like GTP3 just talk sh*t, ours will be able to hold sensible directed, conversations.
What you must understand is, while VAM is a bit of fun for women and men, it's also developed into the most powerful game engine on this planet, if you want to build a virtual human being. VAM is beyond cutting edge, its a science fiction writer's dream, reifying in front of your eyes, in real life. And, the next generation of AI will be so humanlike, and as is the case with an excellent novel or a game, you will
want to suspend your disbelief- its just that we are still working to that next stage at the moment. There's nothing wrong with your imagination, it's a series of technical problems for us to solve.