AI Chatbots are Almost 60 Years Old

AI Chatbots are new, right? Well, not really!

The first AI-powered chatbot, ELIZA, first appeared in 1966. Yes, you read that right. ELIZA made its debut 48 years before Amazon’s Alexa. ELIZA, named after the fictional Eliza Doolittle, would essentially rephrase the user’s input in the form of a question. So, say you told ELIZA about some weekend plans that excited you—it would respond “What about those plans excites you?”