The first chatbot · ELIZA (1966)
ELIZA Archaeology Project
The first chatbot · ELIZA (1966)
A Critical Code Studies reading of ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1966 chatbot, built on the original source recovered from the MIT archive.
A great little read! I had no idea there was a term for the gap between people’s anticipation of intelligence, as versus the actual intelligence behind the curtain. Even cooler to see the source of the instigating program, and also get to try it out myself.
This webpage just gives museum vibes in such a good way. Anyone know of any existing communities that collect these kinds of historical education pages? I’d love to have a backlog of pages to visit like this to spend my idle time.
There was a Co-Recursive podcast episode on this topic as well. It was a decent listen. It has some more interesting links on the site/page. Episode Link