Original Reddit post

if there was a holiday called “Prompt Day” when would it be? the obvious answer seemed like ChatGPT’s launch in 2022 then someone said: “wait… people were prompting ELIZA in 1966” then another person said: “actually, Alan Turing was discussing human-machine conversations back in 1950” that got me thinking Prompting isn’t really a ChatGPT invention it’s more like the moment humanity realized that the right question could shape a machine’s response the tools changed the models changed the interfaces changed but the core idea stayed the same so now i’m curious: which date should history remember as the beginning of prompting?

  • 1950 ?
  • 1966 ?
  • 2022 ?
  • something else? i’d love to hear the strongest case for each… submitted by /u/mrsskonline

Originally posted by u/mrsskonline on r/ArtificialInteligence