This week we’ll be doing a deep dive into Chatbots, specifically a few that have been growing in popularity.
Chatbots have been around for quite some time, the first one was developed by a professor at MIT in the 1960’s.
He (Joseph Weizenbaum) named it ELIZA, his goal was to create a program that would use pattern matching and substitution methodology to simulate a conversation.
Initially the programs design essentially mimicked basic human conversation. ELIZA would pass words that an individual entered into the computer, and then it would pair it with a list of scripted responses that best fit the entered text.
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