I'm sorry, but why are people amused by this?
Not everyone is the same, most people are amused by sports, but I find them extremely boring. Depends on a persons perspective.
It's an incredibly simple program.
Not everyone knows how computer programming works and all programs are supposed to be simple do to algorithms, making them is the hard part. This isn't simple for those who know nothing about programming. Rocket Science is simple for some people, it depends on the person and their point of view. I have never dealt with AI before, still a weakling programmer. I can understand how it might somewhat work, but what I think is probably completely wrong then how they did it. Because almost everything I guess I always have a few contradictions at the end. It doesn't toss out everything on just one question. Tell it you are thinking of an animal, but guess something else and it will still get it. I looked it up on Wikipedia(not the best source) and it has to do with neural networking, which I might read about sometime. It also says that are there that the game was actually made dumber so that it didn't always guess the right object so that it can learn as well.
And then you realize what a waste that was.
Which can be applied to just about every single computer game made. In the end almost all of them are a waste if you think about it. Doesn't mean that I don't enjoy playing them though.
I still think its fun to show off to people.