PullString Offers a Set of New Tools for Creating Chatbots

It seems as if everyone in IT is talking about chatbots in some form or another, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to name a few. All this excitement makes chatbots look like a new innovation just conceived in Silicon Valley, but the technology has been around for more than half a century. And if PullString has its way, it will be the go to platform individuals, small businesses and enterprises will use to create chatbots. According to a Time Magazine report, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Joseph Weizenbaum created a bot called ELIZA in the 1960's. Apparently, ELIZA was programmed to say psychotherapy phrases such as "tell me more", and hold simple conversations with people.