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The ELIZA Effect

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Artificial Intelligence - The Hardest Problem for AI

Despite all the big leaps forward, there was one realm in particular where computers remained quite dumb. They struggled to master human language, which is known as natural language. This clumsiness with human language meant that early chatbots built in the 1950s and 60s were tightly constrained. But talking with them was like having a conversation with Wikipedia.

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