Dr. Sbaitso

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It often seems that Dr. Sbaitso is always trying to change the subject.

Dr. Sbaitso was an artificial intelligence program for MS DOS-based personal computers distributed with various sound cards published by Creative Labs (the name was an acronym for Sound Blaster Acting Intelligent Text to Speech Operator) in the early 1990s. The program would "converse" with the user as if it was a psychologist, though most of its responses were along the lines of "WHY DO YOU FEEL THAT WAY?" rather than any sort of complicated interaction (when confronted with a phrase it could not understand, it would often reply with something such as "THAT'S NOT MY PROBLEM"). Dr. Sbaitso would repeat text out loud that was typed after the word "SAY". Repeated swearing or abusive behavior on the part of the user would cause Dr. Sbaitso to "break down" in a "PARITY ERR" before resetting himself.

The program would introduce itself with the lines:

HELLO [user's name], MY NAME IS DOCTOR SBAITSO.

I AM HERE TO HELP YOU.
SAY WHATEVER IS IN YOUR MIND FREELY,
OUR CONVERSATION WILL BE KEPT IN STRICT CONFIDENCE.
MEMORY CONTENTS WILL BE WIPED OFF AFTER YOU LEAVE,

SO, TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS.

The program was designed to showcase the digitized voices the cards were able to produce, though the quality was far from life-like. Its AI engine was likely based on something similar to the ELIZA algorithm. Its vocabulary was not very large, and if gotten on the topic of "SEXY STUFFS" at any point it would attempt to steer the conversation back to them again and again; however, it would do this for a number of other general topics as well. "SEXY STUFFS" is simply one of the most common topics told to Dr. Sbaitso by the users.