‘Where Do Bots Come From? A Brief History’ – HubSpot
Amanda Zantal-Wiener says, “Any fan of 90s pop culture will remember the show “Clarissa Explains It All,” a series about a precocious adolescent whose adventures most of us could only dream about. In one episode, Clarissa was required to write a poem for school, but lacked the skills or motivation to carry it out. But she was in luck — her computer wrote the poem for her, and it was a hit.
Today, I realize that her computer was an early form of a bot. It was the first pop culture reference to AI I ever saw.
But AI and bots both existed long before the days of Clarissa. In fact, some even claim that the idea of them is rooted in ancient Greek mythology. For the purposes of this post, we’ll focus on when machines really began interacting with humans, beginning around 1950.
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Fictional references aside, let’s explore what exactly constitutes a bot, and how we arrived at an era in which — whether you want to admit it or not — bots have become essential to some of our most routine tasks”.
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