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Radio 3,1 min

The surprisingly sexist history of artificial intelligence

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Siri, Alexa, Echo, Cortana... We may be living through an AI revolution, but male digital assistants have always been few and far between. Sarah Dillon meets one of the very first language-processing computer programmes, Eliza - named after George Bernard Shaw's Eliza Doolittle. 'Just you wait' from Frederick Loewe's score for My Fair Lady is performed by Julie Andrews.

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