In conversation with a LitBot about Shakespeare's Sonnets, we discover an unsuspected fact.

Chatbots can be wildly misleading, deeply deceptive, wilfully idiotic. It's 100% artificial intelligence.

All the LitBot's contributions come directly from an AI program – the questioning has been written by the producer and voiced by a VocoBot.

They may not be as clever as everyone is saying they are – but they are on the way!