Which chatbot platform in the messaging war? It may not matter

GUEST: Back in 1966, a decade before Apple introduced its first computer, Joseph Weizenbaum was hard at work in his lab at MIT putting the final touches on ELIZA, an early computer program to simulate human conversation.
ELIZA worked by implementing simple pattern matching, recognizing key phrases in a user’s input, then outputting preprogrammed, human-like responses. It’s not unlike the way chatbots work today, as it happens.
The technology revolution Weizenbaum helped spark 50 year