The Machine is just hardcoded with simple replies. I don't really know anything about chatbots beyond what a 5 minute google search would show.This is what I was thinking to do.
But now I'm somewhere between figuring out something a little smarter or making an AI bot.
Some ideas I have for the former are like maybe having the bot save the previous response, and doing something more with it. But really that's probably something that shouldn't be messed with.
And now I'm feeling like the whole thing shouldn't be messed with.