Oh man, I hadn’t thought of SmarterChild in dog’s years! It was an early AIM chatbot, and felt like magic at the time. Looking back it feels like there’s a clea

Oh man, I hadn’t thought of SmarterChild in dog’s years! It was an early AIM chatbot, and felt like magic at the time. Looking back it feels like there’s a clear through-line from it (and the rest of ActiveBuddy’s menagerie) to the ChatGPTs of the world today… For today’s lucky 10,000, here’s a Vice retrospective from 2016: https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-history-of-smarterchild/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-history-of-smarterchild/