The Classic Era of Chatbots

We shall now indulge in some chatbot history and take a good gander at ELIZA, mentioned previously in the book, as well as two other earlier chatbots: PARRY and Jabberwocky. None of them leverage artificial neural networks (ANNs) or most of the other advanced techniques described in Chap. 2 . Although primitive and far less informational than their modern brethren, these chatbots are important stepping stones in the technological development of conversational software.