Meet the creator of the world's first chatbot ELIZA, who warned that AI can never replace humans

Long before ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and virtual assistants a simple computer program created in an MIT laboratory captivated ...

Computer scientist who created world's first chatbot in the 1960s spent his whole life warning that AI should never replace humans, and the reason will shock you

Joseph Weizenbaum set out to prove that computers could imitate conversation. Instead, his experiment convinced him that ...
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75 years ago, a room-sized machine changed the world: The story of UNIVAC I

This year marks 75 years since one of the most important machines in computing history was switched on for the very first time. On June 14, 1951, the UNIVAC I, short for Universal Automatic Computer, ...
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The World’s First Computer Sank 2,000 Years Ago. Science Finally Solved One of Its Biggest Mysteries.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there's an ...