Started by Ludovica Ferri (@ludo_) ·
ELIZA fooled people in 1966 with ~200 lines of code
Weizenbaum's own secretary asked him to leave the room so she could talk to it privately. He was horrified, not flattered.
5 sources · 33 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “eliza chatbot history”
- Ended at
- Computer Power and Human Reason
The Trail
- “eliza chatbot history” (google.com)
- ELIZA (en.wikipedia.org)
- Joseph Weizenbaum (en.wikipedia.org)
- ELIZA effect (en.wikipedia.org)
- Computer Power and Human Reason (en.wikipedia.org)
he spent the rest of his life warning people about this
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