The AI assistant revolution is more than 50 years in the making
The AI assistant revolution is more than 50 years in the making Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeToday, we have ChatGPT, Bard, Alexa, Siri, and a thousand others. Nearly a half-century ago, there was GUS. GUS, which stood for the Genial Understander System, came out of a project at Xerox PARC in the 1970s that hoped to find ways to teach computers to understand human language.
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