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		lupusreal 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X I'm out of the loop, why is it an "infobot" and not a chatbot?

Bender 4 months ago [–]

In 1999 there was a perl chatbot called infobot that could be taught factoids, truths, lies. It would learn anything people chatted about on IRC. So I call LLM's infobots.

lupusreal 4 months ago | [–]

Neat, thanks for explaining.

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