For those of you who haven't heard,
Joseph Weizenbaum died earlier this month. Not sure who he was? He was the creator of
ELIZA, a computer program created to test how humans interacted with computers. I tried it on the
Heathkit computer my dad built, and I found it aggravating. After all, computers do only what they are programmed to do; they can't understand what they do. (You can try an updated, online version
here.)
Oh, man, I had a version of that that I coded into my old TRS-80. It was an annoying program, but I have some fond memories of it, anyway.
ReplyDelete(Such programs have come quite a ways since then... I find Jabberwacky greatly entertaining, although it tends not to make coherent sense for more than a few sentences at a time.)
Which is more than we can say for Lewis Carroll's poem.
ReplyDeleteI dunno, I think the poem actually makes an astonishing amount of sense, considering that half the words in it don't really exist. :)
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