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		icebraining on June 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Unveils New Alexa Dialog Modeling for Natur... It's kinda amazing that SHRDLU still sounds advanced today, 50 years after it was created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU

taneq on June 6, 2019 [–]

It sounds advanced because it operated in an incredibility restricted context. It's impressive in the way that self-driving cars in the 80s were impressive because they worked at all.

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