Chit shat

Since I haven't jumped into the chatbot rabbit hole (yet) I have a question for you guys: are the conversations actual "chatting" i.e. verbal back and forth or strictly text based, like the old Eliza program?  I ask because I see and hear things online, mostly ads, that are almost indistinguishable from actual human conversation.  Except for a few verbal glitches they pass the Turing Test with flying colors, the Deep Fakes have won the day, I think.  Once I noticed these phony presentations they seem to be everywhere, the same voices and visual style which take a keen eye and ear to determine that they are computer generated.

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It looks like OpenAI is taking the lead in the Chatbot Derby if what I've recently read is true: This makes it the first consumer AI explicitly designed to reject bullshit, especially its own.

A startling leap forward, in my opinion.  If this news hasn't popped up on your newsfeeds yet you can read more here: https://gizmodo.com/the-end-of-bullshit-ai-2000640302

I wonder whether or not a single chatbot will be dominant and drive out the less capable 'bots, like the way Google currently rules the search engine domain.  When was the last time either of you asked Jeeves anything?