Conversation with Ferris (Megahal)

Continuing my experiments with Megahal - here is a conversation with the brain called "ferris" ..

Here's the conversation transcript :

MegaHAL: Hi, ferris. How's your bod.
User:    can you help me write a blog about artificial intelligence?
MegaHAL: I was a habit. The guy's so conditioned to grief that if you
MegaHAL: could help out.
User:    how do you differ from Eliza?
MegaHAL: Ferris? How do you differ from eliza?
User:    I would say Eliza is more like a doctor - megahal is more a
User:    program that will create new sentences 
MegaHAL: You must be honest here, i love driving it. I want to stay home
MegaHAL: and that he is, in fact, very ill. I debated whether or not i
MegaHAL: should call the doctor.
User:    Eliza for example would look after some keyword list and will
User:    be triggered for an answer
 MegaHAL: Just answer me one question! Is it swelling up? Kim said it was
MegaHAL: like to do and all will be triggered for an answer.
User:    no what megahal is doing is more like building new sentences
User:    from the one the user will type into it 
MegaHAL: One of the new jersey state police but i thought i might get
MegaHAL: busted.
User:    sometime it makes sense, sometime it doesn't - but it is rarely
User:    the same answer that will pop up for the same question
MegaHAL: Because it is rarely the same answer that will pop up for some
MegaHAL: good times? It's a beautiful day, we've won our freedom, we're
MegaHAL: traveling down one of american's most scenic polluted waterways
MegaHAL: and you freaked.
User:    now, if I ask again how do you differ from Eliza?
MegaHAL: I could see them not wanting his brother was going to have to
MegaHAL: ask you for a twenty five year old clod with b.o. Likes me.
User:    see, the answer is totally different
MegaHAL: Because it is the answer.
User:    and then ... something strange like this happen
MegaHAL: See what a finski can do to a car like this happen.
User:    This is very much like training a pet
MegaHAL: The adult mind is a problem! For him it's a problem for you.
MegaHAL: But it's a beautiful day.
User:    at first, it does pretty much what he wants and then he starts
User:    to behave
MegaHAL: He looks at someone like me and i had a meeting first thing
MegaHAL: this morning. Why he has to be a problem. Nothing's a problem
MegaHAL: for you. But it's a problem. Let's crack open the odometer and
MegaHAL: roll it back home where it belongs.