The real author, George Plimpton, once put out a criticism/challenge to the
AI community saying - regarding a chess-playing computer - that, "The
machine isn't going to walk out of the hotel there and start doing
extraordinary things. It can't manage a baseball team, can't tell you what
to do with a bad marriage"

The George Plimpton who has been posting copious off-topic stuff here (what
real person has time for that) has been infuriating folks of all political
stripes by ignoring the real gist of arguments, resorting to insults when
all else fails, and responding with occasional non-sequitors. All of these
are characteristics of the bots created to try to pass the Turing test and
win the Loebner prize. The last clue to me though was his mistaking the
thread about home scale steel production as a political thread.