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In DepthThe People Who Taught Machines to Talk
Profiles of the researchers, dreamers, and contrarians who spent decades making conversational AI possible — and what they think about where it ended up.
Terry Winograd built the most impressive natural language system of 1970 and then spent the next fifty years explaining why it didn't matter. His program SHRDLU could understand English commands about a virtual world of colored blocks. "Pick up the big red block." "Put it on top…
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