@malte@radikal.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social I would say a good start is Grice’s ”Logic and Conversation” explaining the ”Cooperative principle”, the Gricean maxims, and his theory around that. A chatbot exploits (not in the paper’s sense, but literally) the fact that you think you are participating in a conversation. But that ”conversation” is entirely held up by you. You are filling in what is missing, inferring meaning. Like a horoscope. https://projects.illc.uva.nl/inquisitivesemantics/assets/files/papers/Grice1975.pdf