... at a user, who would then respond and then ELIZA would take words from the sentence given by the user and manipulate them into another question. It was not designed to be a smart program, but only to fool the unsuspecting computer user that they were talking to a human (a rather dumb, boring, and repetitive one). (http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/serengul/ML/brief-history-of-AI.html) Early Development As with most technological advancements, major early development of computer science was headed by the military, as early back as the 1940s. When technology progressed enough to make computers smaller and more capable, people became afraid of computers, and the fact that they could calculate math equations in seconds that would take a skilled mathematician minutes, even hours to solve. Fiction movies were made in the 60s and 70s of computers and robots that would take over the world or control the lives of men. Imagine, the simple computers of yesteryear only ...

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