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1. An Introduction to Chat and Generative AI

Jess Stratton1  
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Charlestown, RI, USA
 

In 1999, Santa Monica-based company LAUNCH Media Inc. released one of the first of its kind: a new Internet music streaming service. In 2001, LAUNCH Media was purchased by Yahoo! for 12 million dollars to integrate its services and create a wider reaching streaming service, LaunchCast. When it was released, users could listen to a song, rate it on a 1–10 scale, and the service would pick more songs to play. Users could skip a song or rate it, and that choice would be stored with ...

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