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From ELIZA to GPT: How the uncanny shaped human-AI interaction's hidden history
In 1961, researchers at Bell Labs programmed the IBM 7094 to sing 'Daisy Bell'. The voice was synthesised, mechanical and deeply strange: almost human, but not quite. It was uncanny – that unsettled feeling we get when something is almost, but not quite, human.