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Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

By Ben Tarnoff · The Guardian · July 2023

Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

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"Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence - but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans"

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