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- February 6, 2025
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Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates talks about his “lucky” early childhood!
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs Forbes Staff Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. Did you know Bill Gates was one of a few people who could program the University of Washington’s PDP-10, CDC 6400 and the Burroughs 5500 mainframe computers at Computer Center Corporation (CCC) with punch cards! Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates is opening up about his “lucky” early childhood, his years “getting hooked on coding” and his belief that, if we grew up today, he’d probably be diagnosed as “on the autism spectrum” as he promotes the release of his memoir next month—also commenting on more recent issues like his divorce. Key Facts “Source Code: My Beginnings” is the first of three planned personal memoirs by Gates and will cover his early life and the formation of Microsoft through the late 1970s, when the company signed its first deal with Apple. The Wall Street Journal published an extensive excerpt from the book in which Gates describes his teenage years taking “expeditions” through the mountains around Seattle with his friends, writing computer code for a PDP-8 machine on loan to his high school and the “lucky timing” that saw him born at the right time and under the right circumstances to succeed. He also reflected on how he would become obsessed with certain projects, miss social cues and “could be rude and inappropriate without seeming to notice” how it impacted others—traits he equated to what is now called neurodivergence and said, if he was growing up today, “I probably would be diagnosed on the…
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- January 24, 2025
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‘ELIZA,’ the world’s 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code
By Kristina Killgrove published January 17, 2025 Researchers discovered long-lost computer code and used it to resurrect the early chatbot ELIZA. Scientists have just resurrected “ELIZA,” the world’s first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works extremely well. Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these “software archaeologists” discovered defunct code that had been lost for 60 years and brought it back to life. ELIZA was developed in the 1960s by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum and named for Eliza Doolittle, the protagonist of the play “Pygmalion,” who was taught how to speak like an aristocratic British woman. As a language model that the user could interact with, ELIZA had a significant impact on today’s artificial intelligence (AI), the researchers wrote in a paper posted to the preprint database arXiv Sunday (Jan. 12). The “DOCTOR” script written for ELIZA was programmed to respond to questions as a psychotherapist would. For example, ELIZA would say, “Please tell me your problem.” If the user input “Men are all alike,” the program would respond, “In what way.” Weizenbaum wrote ELIZA in a now-defunct programming language he invented, called Michigan Algorithm Decoder Symmetric List Processor (MAD-SLIP), but it was almost immediately copied into the language Lisp. With the advent of the early internet, the Lisp version of ELIZA went viral, and the original version became obsolete. Read More At Live Science. PWA ContentKeywords ContentQuestion answer Content
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