Steve Easterbrook on Nostr: In my 1st faculty position, in 1990, I taught Introduction to #AI (to first-year ...
In my 1st faculty position, in 1990, I taught Introduction to #AI (to first-year undergrads!)
The first assignment was to build a chatbot, based on the design of ELIZA. If you don't know the story of ELIZA, you should. It's trivially easy to program, and fools many people into thinking they are interacting with a person, not a machine.
Today's #LLMs aren't really any different from ELIZA - they just have a vastly bigger repertoire of response patterns to draw on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
The first assignment was to build a chatbot, based on the design of ELIZA. If you don't know the story of ELIZA, you should. It's trivially easy to program, and fools many people into thinking they are interacting with a person, not a machine.
Today's #LLMs aren't really any different from ELIZA - they just have a vastly bigger repertoire of response patterns to draw on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA