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From ELIZA to GPT: A History of Chatbots
From ELIZA’s 1966 pattern matching to modern LLMs: six decades of chatbot history, and why the “ELIZA effect” still applies to today’s systems.
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Building a Simple Chatbot Using an LLM API
Building a working chatbot with an LLM API in a few lines of code, and the real engineering work — context management and guardrails — that…
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AI Chatbots vs Search Engines: Different Tools for Different Jobs
AI chatbots vs search engines: genuinely different tools for different jobs, and how AI-powered search is blending the two.
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Building a Local RAG Chatbot Over Your Own Documents
A fully local, offline RAG chatbot using Ollama and ChromaDB: indexing your own documents and querying them with no API keys and no data leaving your…
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AI Agents vs Chatbots: What’s Actually Different
The real technical difference between a reactive chatbot and a multi-step agentic loop, and why that distinction matters for the risk you’re accepting.