Brian Banks â“‹ · @BrianBanks
110 followers · 277 posts · Server mstdn.social

I'd be much more interested in if they'd called it .

#missedopportunity #askjeeves #chatgpt

Last updated 1 year ago

Miguel Afonso Caetano · @remixtures
291 followers · 600 posts · Server tldr.nettime.org

: "The original conception for Jeeves, Gruener told me, was remarkably similar to what Microsoft and Google are trying to build today. As a student at UC San Diego in the mid-1970s, Gruener—a sci-fi aficionado—got an early glimpse of ARPANET, the pre-browser predecessor to the commercial internet, and fell in love. Just over a decade later, as the web grew and the beginnings of the internet came into view, Gruener realized that people would need a way to find things in the morass of semiconnected servers and networks. “It became clear that the web needed search but that mere mortals without computer-science degrees needed something easy, even conversational,” he said. Inspired by Eliza, the famous chatbot designed by MIT’s Joseph Weizenbaum, Gruener dreamed of a search engine that could converse with people using natural-language processing. Unfortunately, the technology wasn’t sophisticated enough for Gruener to create his ideal conversational search bot."

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

#Chatbots #askjeeves #search #searchengines

Last updated 1 year ago

H4ND🎵 · @H4ND
127 followers · 150 posts · Server mastodon.social

Before Google started dominating the search engine space, what was your go-to?

I was partial to a bit of Ask Jeeves myself.

#searchengine #google #askjeeves #web

Last updated 1 year ago

Meshach · @meshach
2 followers · 32 posts · Server universeodon.com

Is searchtbot a version of or amta?

#microsoft #askjeeves

Last updated 2 years ago

Stephen Miles · @Spmiles42
64 followers · 82 posts · Server mstdn.social

If chat is going to be taking over social, does this mean that is gonna make a comeback?! 🤞

#askjeeves #AI

Last updated 2 years ago