{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"a-gnt","provider_url":"https://a-gnt.com","title":"The People Who Taught Machines to Talk","author_name":"a-gnt","author_url":"https://a-gnt.com","thumbnail_url":"https://a-gnt.com/blog/the-people-who-taught-machines-to-talk/opengraph-image","thumbnail_width":1200,"thumbnail_height":630,"description":"Profiles of the researchers, dreamers, and contrarians who spent decades making conversational AI possible — and what they think about where it ended up.","published_at":"2026-04-10T00:00:00.000Z","reading_time":"9 min read"}