The limitations of letting chatbots imitate humans

Chatbots have faced a lot of criticism in recent months. They've been called dumb, frustrating and useless, and a waste of time. Of course, a lot of that criticism has been fair -- there are a lot of dumb, frustrating, useless, waste-of-time chatbots out there, after all. But there's one piece of feedback I've been hearing that just doesn't ring true for me. It's this idea that the shortcomings of today's chatbots stem from the fact that they're not human enough.