"Unlike today’s chatbots, which generate answers statistically based on training data gleaned from the internet, all of SmarterChild’s responses were written by humans, or what Kay calls “curated.” This meant that SmarterChild would not give false, dangerous, or otherwise problematic answers."
https://medium.com/chmcore/smarterchild-a-chatbot-buddy-from-2001-10ca4ee03ab9