In the mid-1960s, the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum created the world’s first chatbot. It was a relatively simple program modeled on the techniques of Rogerian psychotherapy, in which the therapist mirrors the patient’s statements often in the form of a […]
L. M. Sacasas reads, thinks, writes, and talks about technology, usually in that order. His writing appears on his blog, The Convivial Society. The best 100 posts from his previous blog have been collected in an e-book, The Frailest Thing: Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology