From the course: Introduction to Conversational AI
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A brief history
From the course: Introduction to Conversational AI
A brief history
- Before we dive deeper, I want to be clear. This technology is not new. In 1964, computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum created Eliza, a primitive version of conversational AI able to simulate a conversation by recognizing keywords input by the user and parroting them back with generic questions according to a rule-based script. In 1995, Richard Wallace, inspired by ELIZA, created a successor called Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity, or more simply, A.L.I.C.E. A couple of years later, a web chatbot called Cleverbot was the first of its kind to provide responses based on past input from other humans. The next wave included the digital assistants we're all familiar with. Siri was created in 2007 at the Stanford Research Institute now called SRI, having started as a DARPA funded program called PAL, or Personalized Assistant that Learns. The PAL tech was purchased by Apple in 2010 named Siri and integrated into…
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