People have been trying to talk to computers for almost as long as they've been building computers. For decades, many in tech have been convinced that this was the trick: if we could figure out a way to talk to our computers the way we talk to other people, and for computers to talk back the same way, it would make those computers easier to understand and operate, more accessible to everyone, and just more fun to use.
What Eliza showed, and what other developers and engineers have spent the next six decades working on, is that we treat our devices differently when we think of them as animate, human-like objects. And we are remarkably willing to treat our devices that way.
#ai-chatbots #dialogue-systems #human-computer-interaction #chatbot-history #artificial-intelligence
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