The mechanical dreamers
The birth of symbolic thought
The illusion of empathy
The competitive spark
007skaty The First AI Winter
When the hype outpaced the code, they pulled the funding for the thinking machines.
007skaty Between 1964 and 1966, the DOCTOR script reflected statements as questions, showing how humans emotionally connect with basic pattern matching software.
How did Joseph Weizenbaum react when he saw people pouring their hearts out to ELIZA?
What conversational style did Joseph Weizenbaum model ELIZA's 'DOCTOR' script after in 1966?
First electronic person: In 1970, Life magazine famously referred to the Stanford Research Institute's Shakey the Robot as the world's first electronic person.
007skaty Our social brains mistake conversational cues in mathematical algorithms for genuine human understanding
What is the psychological phenomenon where humans attribute human feelings to computer software?
The attribution of human characteristics, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. In 2025, Alessia Dorigoni and Pier Luigi Giardino analyzed how this bias affects trust in machine-generated messages.
Which famous pathfinding algorithm, still used in video games today, was created for Shakey the Robot?
What was the name of the highly critical 1973 report that led to massive AI funding cuts in the UK?