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TECH011: The History of AI and Chatbots w/ Dr. Richard Wallace (Tech Podcast)

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TECH011: The History of AI and Chatbots w/ Dr. Richard Wallace (Tech Podcast)

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Dr. Richard Wallace, creator of ALICE and AIML, shares his journey from 1990s chatbot innovation to today’s AI frontiers. He and Preston also explore AI’s learning methods, human vs machine intelligence, and the evolving role of creativity in artificial ...

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In this episode, Dr. Richard Wallace, a pioneer in conversational AI, reflects on the evolution of chatbots from rule-based systems to today’s advanced language models, offering a firsthand account of key breakthroughs and philosophical debates in artificial intelligence.
02:46
Hugh Loebner funded an annual Turing Test-based competition for chatbots.
03:44
People trusted Eliza with deeply personal issues, revealing early emotional attachment to AI.
10:34
Developed AIML to scale chatbot intelligence efficiently
16:30
Alexa processes over 1 billion customer interactions daily in 17 languages
23:35
LLMs learn like children but need more filtering
37:59
Attention mechanisms in AI work similarly to how a robot eye focuses on visual input.

Chapters

Intro
00:00
How a 1990 New York Times article inspired Richard Wallace’s AI journey
02:46
What made the ALICE chatbot revolutionary in its time
03:42
The principles behind minimalist robotics and their influence on AI
07:20
How AIML works and why it was crucial to early chatbot success
12:00
The contrast between supervised and unsupervised learning methods
16:30
Why LLM decision-making processes remain hard to interpret
17:20
How humans and chatbots use language in surprisingly robotic ways
20:33
The philosophical roots of the Turing Test and its modern critiques
24:43
Insights on combining symbolic and neural approaches in AI today
40:19
What Wallace is working on now at Franz in medical AI predictions
41:18

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Preston Pysh: Hey everyone, welcome to this Wednesday's release of Infinite Tech. Today's episode is a deep dive into the early foundations of conversational AI and what they reveal about today's language models. My guest is Dr. Richard Wallace, a pioneeri...