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いまだにAutoItで小さなWindowsツールを作り続ける理由

AutoItは古くてニッチな言語だが、小さなWindowsユーティリティを素早く作るには今でも非常に有効だと筆者は語る。軽量で依存関係が少なく、GUIの自動化や簡単なツール作成に最適。最新の言語やフレームワークが溢れる中でも、現場の細かいニーズに応える実用性を重視する姿勢が示されている。

背景メモ

- **AutoIt**は、Windows向けのキー操作・マウス操作の自動化を目的としたスクリプト言語。2000年代前半からある老舗ツールで、BASICに似た文法を持ち、単体のEXEファイルにコンパイルできる。 - 公式のActiveX/COM対応やDLL呼び出しなど、Windowsのシステム機能に直接アクセスできる一方、オブジェクト指向や最新の言語機能はなく、2020年代の「モダンな」開発環境（Pythonや.NET系、Rustなど）とは一味違うレイヤーに位置する。 - 「なぜ今でもAutoItを使うのか」というこの種の論考は、本格的なアプリ開発には向かないが、ちょっとしたユーティリティ・内部管理ツール・プロトタイプを爆速で作るには十分すぎる、というノスタルジー抜きの実用視点で語られることが多い。 - 同系統のツールとしてはAutoHotkey（AHK）がよく比較対象に上がるが、AutoItはGUIの作成機能（Kodaフォームデザイナー）が標準で付属している点が特徴。

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背景メモ

The ELIZA Archaeology Project

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The ELIZA Archaeology Project documents the original 1960s MIT chatbot ELIZA, created by Joseph Weizenbaum. The project explores the program's code, history, and cultural impact, including the "Eliza Effect"—the human tendency to attribute intelligence to simple computer systems—which remains relevant to modern AI like ChatGPT.

Critics argue that AI is helpless outside narrow human-constructed environments. But all intelligence relies on a specific ecosystem; a human dropped ...

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Yuval Noah Harari argues that critics who say AI is helpless outside narrow human-built environments overlook that all intelligence depends on a specific ecosystem—just as a human dropped on Mars would perish as quickly as a chess AI without electricity. He made the remarks during the 2026 Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Oxford.

‘PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR’ — Chatbot on Chatbot Action Circa 1973

2.0

A 1973 transcript published as an RFC by Vint Cerf documents a conversation between two early AI chatbots: PARRY, designed to simulate paranoid schizophrenia, and ELIZA (DOCTOR). The exchange shows them discussing topics like bookies and racketeers, offering a humorous look at early chatbot interactions.

‘Searching for SmarterChild’ Kickstarter

2.0

A Kickstarter campaign for 'Searching for SmarterChild', a documentary about the AOL Instant Messenger chatbot that once had 30 million users, is in its final week and still short of its funding goal.

My Conversation With ELIZA

1.5

The author recounts a recent interaction with a web-based recreation of ELIZA, the early AI chatbot, and shares a transcript of the stilted conversation. He expresses skepticism about ELIZA's historical reputation and criticizes anyone who found it useful as a virtual therapist, calling such people "suffered-a-permanent-head-injury wrong."

いまだにAutoItで小さなWindowsツールを作り続ける理由

背景メモ

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いまだにAutoItで小さなWindowsツールを作り続ける理由

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