BrianKrebsMy first recollection of having a "conversation" on a computer was ~1984. It was a text-based game on the Apple II that I can't remember the name of, but at some point in the game you could end up in a church or temple, and you could ask it anything. Of course, the game was limited in the number of different answers it could give at random, but the answers were all general and sagacious enough that they could be interpreted as some kind of meaningful response (at least to a 12 y/o). Wish I could recall the name of the game. Anyone?
Jeff Atwood@briankrebs oh god incredible nerd sniping here 😅
kravitzAh, back when the grand intelligence of game AI was reduced to a lengthy swath of if/then statements.
In my day we didn't have ChatGPT teaching us about writing games and cutting and pasting code, we had to manually type thousands of lines of BASIC out of a book and if you make a typo you're f*@'d
Todd Fillingim