What a precursor to ChatGPT taught us about AI — in 1966
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What a precursor to ChatGPT taught us about AI — in 1966

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This is what Microsoft's virtual assistant, Cortana, was programmed to say in 2014 when a user asked if it was alive. As Weizenbaum later wrote, "I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." While it wasn't until the 2010s that virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana and Alexa achieved widespread adoption, ChatGPT precursors track all the way back to the 1960s. Between 1964 and 1966 at MIT, computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum designed Eliza, a natural language processing program that could convincingly mimic short human conversations. Voice assistants also condition users to the constant company of a listening device, able to be "woken" at any moment, while smart speakers like Alexa offer up a hub for the smart home, extending constant monitoring to the home as well.

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