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Clipping from magazine article, reading: Cheap AI Systems One approach that was popular five or ten years ago was the "artificial intelligence" approach, based loosely on the idea that a user would type in English-like sentences, and the program would pretend to be alive, friendly and understanding in responding to what you thought you asked for. But the typing of input strings is tedious and generally a waste of time. Moreover, the program's masquerading as an intelligent entity is usually misleading and annoying, both for the time wasted in trying to guess what the program really does, and for its gratuitous pseudo-social invasion of contemplative privacy. Fortunately, this type of system is proportionally on the wane (except in the personal computing field, where it lives on as the "adventure," or Guess-My-Commands, game).