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The 1960s Chatbot That Explains Why You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets
ELIZA, a program built at MIT sixty years ago, tricked people into emotional confessions before anyone had heard the word 'chatbot'. A new book has recovered its lost source code, and the lessons are uncomfortably relevant today.
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Beyond Chatbots: World Models Are Teaching AI to Simulate Reality
The next big wave in AI isn't about language. It's about teaching machines to understand how the physical world actually works, and the race is already on.
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