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An early chatbot written by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the mid-1960s. Its best-known script mimicked a psychotherapist, and users' attachment to it alarmed its creator.
Back in 1966 computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum observed the so-called “Eliza Effect”, the tendency to project emotional understanding onto machines that merely mirror our words.
Eva and Franco Mattes, Eva and Franco Mattes on Mega Eliza
That would suggest any social agent could be an artist, like Eliza, the chatbot from the 1960s. People thought it was alive and real for a while, even though it's a very simple rule-based system.
Aaron Hertzmann, Aaron Hertzmann on Caring about People