Had an argument with a ChatBot in a bar in 1998 in a virtual world.

Been increasingly focussed on making conversations between computers and humans since then and for the last 20 years have professionally delivered chatbots and conversational AI systems through my company Elzware.

I did kick off early doors though, my first system was built in 1982 on a ZX Spectrum when I was the tender age of 19 !!