Though AI feels like new and shiny technology, Tim Allen said he first encountered it in 1986 at the University of Pennsylvania in the form of ELIZA, an early chatbot.
“It’s been evolving in a slow and steady line since then, it’s not like suddenly whoa, all this came,” he said at a lunch roundtable discussion before the Technical.ly Developers Conference during Philly Tech Week 2023 presented by Comcast. “It’s just currently in everybody’s frontal lobe right now.”
Allen, principal engineer at The Wharton School, was among other technologists discussing AI’s presence over the last six months. During the discussion, we heard opinions about this unique moment for technology and how AI might effect the job market.
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