I had one of these as a child (actually I still have it and it works nicely). We definitely didn't think of it as intelligent in any way. It was hilarious and once we found out about 8 track tapes (which weren't a thing in the UK) enjoyed how cleverly the tape had been put together with the different tracks being aligned. It also used a lot of robot sounds to fill blank spots needed because some questions/answers would be different lengths on different tracks.