On December 21, 2024, just before 2 pm, scientists made the dead speak. ELIZA, the world’s first chatbot is back. Long imitated, but not perfectly replicated, ELIZA has long been thought lost. But scientists discovered an early version of its code in the archives of its creator in 2021 and have spent the intervening years piecing it back together.

ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions found online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost - until now

ChatGPT can now be asked to carry out tasks for users at a future time, the chatbot’s maker OpenAI has said. The new Tasks feature will enable users to ask the AI chatbot to schedule anything from one-time reminders to recurring actions such as a weekly news briefing or daily weather update.

Google says its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini will now deliver up-to-date news from The Associated Press in the tech giant’s first such deal with a news publisher