Introduction

The first computer program that allowed some kind of plausible conversation between humans and machines was invented in 1966. The claim is that it's able to answer anything you ask it, including writing students' essays. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington, explained why it's dangerous to always trust what a chatbot is telling us. Find out if chatbots really think for themselves with 6 Minute English.