The history of machine intelligence is not merely limited to people whose only job is to write codes in machine language algorithms; instead, there’s a diverse professional sphere within the field of artificial intelligence that has its philosophical and psychiatric implications. Specifically, the notion of consciousness is often discussed in …
The Parry chatbot, or simply Parry, was created in 1972 by Kenneth Colby, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. This chatbot was made to mimic the behavior of a patient of paranoid schizophrenia. It was meant to be an answer to ELIZA, a “doctor” chatbot developed by Carl Rogers. …
The history of chatbots is actually much longer than you might think. Because of the complex nature of today’s chatbots, I couldn’t blame you for assuming they were a fairly recent development. But the concept was first discussed as far back as 1950, and the concept of self controlled machines …
