In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.
Source: [Wired](https://www.wired.com/story/inventing-eliza-book-excerpt-chatbot/)
An increasing number of people seem to agree the internet is terrible for children - allegedly addictive, destructive to self-esteem, possibly a portal to predators. Over the past year, several countries have started requiring stringent age verification or outright bans for minors.
A study shows people who read books live 20 percent longer than those who do not.
"You can't commit a . env file to Git" is a sentence we've all heard. Most people accepted it and went on with their lives, using other tools to share environment variables.
X has made a tweak to give your replies a boost in your friends' comment section.
AI is moving beyond chatbots and into toys, dolls, and robots built to befriend children. A leading child-development expert says the technology offers real promise — but also risks crowding out the human relationships children need most.
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