From Chatbot to Superpower
The evolution from basic chatbots to today's AI ecosystem — an original historical perspective leading to MCP servers, agents, and the current moment.
In 1966, a computer scientist at MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum created ELIZA, a program that simulated a psychotherapist by rephrasing the user's statements as questions. "I feel sad" would produce "Why do you feel sad?" It was a parlor trick -- a few dozen pattern-matching rules d…
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