Well, dear Peggy, the program in question is, in fact, known to have existed in 1974 on Multics (https://multicians.org/terminals.html https://multicians.org/te

Well, dear Peggy, the program in question is, in fact, known to have existed in 1974 on Multics (https://multicians.org/terminals.html https://multicians.org/terminals.html), so you're not half wrong. The other major issue is that it isn't machine learning—it's a classic example of an expert system, even if there is a bit of a gray area around whether a binary decision tree qualifies as ML. The worst part, of course, is that it takes less time to slap "GUESS THE ANIMAL" on a stock image of a glass terminal than it does to prompt a diffusion model to generate the same thing with passable fidelity... and it still wouldn't be an accurate depiction of what the program actually did.