How The Inventor of the First Chatbot Turned Against AI

[Tom.G]

A lengthy, but interesting, article about Joseph Weizenbaum, the guy that created the Eliza program back in 1966; Chat/GPT is an out-growth of Eliza. I remember that a limited Eliza was available on the early microcomputers in the late 1970's. It was rather convincing (or astonishing) for much of the general public.

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...bot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai

Several references are in the article for those that care to pursue the subject more deeply.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[jedishrfu]

I remember hearing that people really used it as therapy, thinking it was so intelligent with its questioning responses to their responses.

Later, I learned that in public talks, the people who ask questions are seen by the audience as smarter than the speaker. It appears this sentiment prevails here with Eliza as well.