I wasn't born in 1989 yet, but I do know ELIZA. It's a textbook artificial intelligence dialogue system that's built on RULES, which means it matches specific patterns in your input, and returns rigid, pre-defined answers with segments of your inputs in them so that it appears to be intelligent and interactive. Back propagation was just discovered. Deep learning was non-existent. LSTM would be born eight years later. Transformer and GPT were thirty years away.
And as a genius, it seems unlikely that Sheldon didn't know that. I don't really expect him to predict the future, but I do expect him to know how ELIZA works. I guess the writers just don't feel like bothering themselves.
And as a genius, it seems unlikely that Sheldon didn't know that. I don't really expect him to predict the future, but I do expect him to know how ELIZA works. I guess the writers just don't feel like bothering themselves.