Pioneering AI Assistants and Their Launch

ELIZA (1966) was the first chatbot, simulating a psychotherapist, followed by SmarterChild (2001), an early chatbot on IM platforms, and Siri (2011), the first modern virtual assistant integrated into a smartphone.

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• medium.com
• AI Assistant Creation History: From Rule-Based Systems to AI Chatbots - IrisAgen
• fabrichealth.com
• en.wikipedia.org
• The History Of Chatbots – From ELIZA to ChatGPT - Onlim

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