What a 1966 chatbot and its horrified inventor can tell us about the voice in your pocket This week Ben Patterson, a senior writer at PCWorld, spent a long and comfortable afternoon talking to Sesame's new voice assistant, and came away unsettled in a way he couldn't quite name. The app — from a startup … Continue reading ELIZA Learned to Breathe
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Instructions for Claude, 2026-05-23
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