Why robotics and language need each other
Why robotics and language need each other Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter When Stefanie Tellex was 10 or 12, around 1990, she learned to program. Her great-aunt had given her instructional books and she would type code into her father's desktop computer. One program she typed in was a famous artificial intelligence program called ELIZA, which aped a psychotherapist. Tellex would tap out questions, and ELIZA would respond with formulaic text answers. "I was just fascinated with the idea that a computer could talk to you," Tellex says, "that a computer cou...
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