ELIZA: The Accidental Chatbot That Shaped AI History

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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, September 10, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The First Internet Search Engine in 1990, The Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1785, LHC Powered up in 2008, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Blockchain Development Through the Eyes of a Backend Developer to Breaking The UStatus Quo: Between Elon Musks Terminus and Lex Fridmans Empire Romanus , let’s dive right in.

The Market Today

#01

Instagram (Meta)

$504.79 -0.27%

#02

Microsoft

$405.72 -0.37%

#05

ThoughtWorks

$4.39 +0.46%

#09

Tesla

$216.27 +0.03%

#13

Sysco

$78.41 -0.15%

#01

Bitcoin

$56811.29 +2.87%

machine-learning

I Tried Perplexity For a Week, And I Dont Think AI Search Engines Can Replace Google.. Yet

TL;DR Perplexity hit the scene just around the same time ChatGPT launched, but is it truly the be-all end-all one would have you believe?

By @sheharyarkhan [ 13 Min read ]

In some ways, I was proven wrong. In some ways, I was proven right.

Here is my story.

Yet, Perplexity distinguishes itself for how it functions. Its AI chatbot scours the internet for answers, listing citations for its results, and the company emphasizes accuracy as its unique selling point...

machine-learning

ELIZA: The Accidental Chatbot That Shaped AI History

TL;DR ELIZA, created by Joseph Weizenbaum, was never meant to be a chatbot. Learn how this research tool’s accidental release shaped the AI world for decades.

By @machineethics [ 3 Min read ]

Author:

(1) Jeff Shrager, Blue Dot Change and Stanford University Symbolic Systems Program (Adjunct)( jshrager@stanford.edu).

Abstract and 1. Introduction

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” (The last line of Turing’s 1950 MIND paper [44])..

programming

Blockchain Development Through the Eyes of a Backend Developer

TL;DR A seasoned backend developer shares their insights on transitioning to blockchain development.

By @defidiver [ 18 Min read ]

Disclaimer: everything described below is purely my opinion. I could be wrong, and I am wrong regularly:))

Yes, many different videos and posts say, “Here, such-and-such crypto can grow now, and such-and-such crypto has fallen. Guys, let's invest, let's buy...” I will not tell you anything about it...

web3

Breaking The UStatus Quo: Between Elon Musks Terminus and Lex Fridmans Empire Romanus

TL;DR Asimovs “Foundation” is a masterpiece, a deep dive into Ancient Rome history with Lex Fridman is useful, and building cities on Mars by Elon Musk is exciting.

By @nebojsaneshatodorovic [ 5 Min read ]

It all started with an X “kiss” that turned out to be a bliss between Lex Fridman and Elon Musk.

Just a few days after an interview with Donald Trump, Lex Fridman made an announcement about the Roman Empire “deep dive” episode:

..

hackernoon

HackerNoon in Your Own Mother Tongue 🆕 ‼️ 77 Language Homepages for Technology Blog Posts

TL;DR We’re excited to add 64 language translations for HackerNoon blog posts, bring the total possible language translations per story to 77 languages per blog post.

By @David [ 4 Min read ]

To have another language is to possess a second soul.” – Charlemagne

Update: You can now translate your HackerNoon story into any of these languages.

https://hackernoon.com/lang/es?embedable=true

https://hackernoon.com/lang/de?embedable=true

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https://hackernoon.com/lang/ht?embedable=true..

Additional Stories of your interest:

-Bitcoin Sucks! Lets Make It Attractive

On This Day

The First Internet Search Engine

The first Internet search engine was invented and released on September 10th, 1990 by three friends named Alan, Bill, and Peter. They named it Archie. With Archie, people could search for files on the Internet by using keywords. Archie became a hit and paved the way for the search engines...

Poll Of the Week

Will You Purchase Any of Apple's New Products?

Today, Apple officially revealed the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro, Apple Watch Series 10, the Apple Watch Ultra 2, and the AirPods 4. Will you be buying any of these?

Yes, all of them!

Yes, at least one or two.

Absolutely not.

Not now, but maybe in the future.

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