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One of the first chatbots
There was one in the late 1990's I used mess with
podrock —
6/14/2022 11:25:24 PM
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but I can't recall what it was called.
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Not sure what to make of this... is it sentient?
- RL -
6/13/2022 1:00:08 AM
Can it rewrite it's own code? Tell me they haven't connected it to the Internet.
- RobVG -
6/13/2022 5:35:34 AM
Yikes. I hadn't even thought of that.
- ER -
6/13/2022 2:17:20 PM
It apparently is connected to the internet, and reads Twitter
- RL -
6/13/2022 2:22:26 PM
Well, that's going to give it serious emotional problems.
- podrock -
6/14/2022 11:23:48 PM
I think I think, therefore, I think I am.
- ER -
6/13/2022 1:51:52 AM
I went back and read the whole thing.
- ER -
6/13/2022 2:58:19 AM
One of the first chatbots
- RobVG -
6/13/2022 6:19:49 PM
There was one in the late 1990's I used mess with
- podrock -
6/14/2022 11:25:24 PM
I remember that bot
- ER -
6/13/2022 9:13:59 PM
There's a good Wiki on "Eliza"
- RobVG -
6/15/2022 4:02:15 PM
They asked LaMDA what it thought of ELIZA
- RL -
6/14/2022 4:07:41 AM
I don't know why you feel it's too human?
- RobVG -
6/13/2022 6:08:37 PM
It just sounds too much like HAL in Space Odyssey.
- ER -
6/13/2022 9:41:12 PM
That also had me skeptical...
- RL -
6/13/2022 2:32:34 PM
Again, go back and watch "Ex Machina" one more time....
- ER -
6/13/2022 5:09:06 PM
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