Lessons from the very first chatbot

Hello, and welcome to the VergeCast, the flagship podcast of If Then Statements. And the way to think about it is basically as a very simple back and forth experience that you might have with a computer.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of think, would, right, including: I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show, we're talking about chatbots, specifically the very first chatbot from the 1960s.

1. 01Hello, and welcome to the VergeCast, the flagship podcast of If Then Statements
2. 02Amazon says it's also about privacy and convenience, but this is a company that is also fighting perplexity and others to keep AI agents from taking over any of your shopping exper
3. 03And so his family emigrate to the US in 1936 he was 13 years old so that early on he was already living quite an incredible life he moves to Detroit and becomes Americanized though