AI for Absolute Beginners: A Clear Guide to Tomorrow by Oliver Theobald

Author:Oliver Theobald [Theobald, Oliver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Early Development

To grasp the impact of recent developments in NLP, it’s important to see what’s changed and where it all began. Originally, NLP consisted of human-programmed rule-based systems, where linguistic experts would manually encode rules of language into a computer program. While some of these earlier approaches obtained minor success in domain-specific cases, they were inherently limited by the complexity and variability of human language. One example is ELIZA, which was one of the first chatbots developed by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the 1960s. This included a version of ELIZA designed to emulate a psychotherapist using its ability to reflect user statements back in the form of a question, as demonstrated in the following example.

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