As most people know, the way we learn as human beings is not often understood by scientists and philosophers alike. A philosopher friend of mine is always making my head reel with thoughts of subjective nature and phenomenology. He's fun to hang out with anyway. One way to learn about us is to examine other things and see how they learn.
Chat bots are one avenue of exploration.
The first bot is Billy, which is pretty standard as bots go. Billy is a keyword-parser bot preprogrammed with a set number of response phrases. According to Leedberg, Billy's learning abilities make him an atypical bot. The other bot in Leedberg's stable is Daisy. Daisy is unique in that she has no preprogrammed responses built in.