Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
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The Internet Archive has launched a Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection, featuring emulated software from the 1970s through 1990s that explored early ideas about thinking machines. From ELIZA's therapy chatbot simulations to Little Computer People and autonomous robot-programming games, these programs reveal how humanity's fascination with synthetic consciousness shaped computing long before modern AI.
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