Gary Marcus on X: "If ELIZA had been released in the current environment, people would have been arguing about whether it was AGI and investing billions in keyword matching." / X
(Back in the day, there was an effort to steer MIS into Expert Systems and a LISP boom. Hardware chimed in with the connection machine, internet and PC. Followed by the big chill. During which Machine Learning forged on, luckily. Good to recall why they originally invented Email. Just the FAQs.)