<story><title>SHRDLU (1971)</title><url>http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Wow that brings back the memories. I remember when it first came out it seemed like such a small step from having a system that could converse about a simplified universe to one that could converse about a much closer to &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; universe. And here we are with computers that are literally over a million times more powerful and nope, still can&amp;#x27;t ask Alexa or Google home where you left the car keys.</text></comment>
<story><title>SHRDLU (1971)</title><url>http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Retr0spectrum</author><text>For anyone wondering, I assume the name is a reference to the frequency distribution of english characters - when sorted by average frequency, you get &amp;quot;ETAOINSHRDLU...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Etaoin_shrdlu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Etaoin_shrdlu&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>