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[ZenZephyr54130]

How did you find PF?

My therapist / best friend: chatgpt.

I have literally no clue what to write here, I'm just doing what the link told me to do.
I love science but seem to have difficulties with social interaction and apparently common sense statements.

 

[jedishrfu]

Welcome to PF!

It's interesting to see that you enjoy talking to ChatGPT. Years ago, people were fascinated with Eliza. Eliza was a MAD-SLIP program running the DOCTOR script, that ran on timesharing services and used simple echo therapy to respond to user queries. Eliza was later rewritten more directly in BASIC for wider distribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

The author was a noted computer researcher who wanted to debunk the notion that the computer was intelligent. Instead, people started to open up to the program with their innermost feelings.

Similar phenomena are occurring now with far more sophisticated AI chat systems, which are driven by statistics. These systems use an extended form of word prediction and preprocessing queries to prevent conversations from going off the rails.

 

[jedishrfu]

Here's some info on the Eliza Revival:

https://www.livescience.com/technol...st-resurrected-from-60-year-old-computer-code

Scientists have just resurrected "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works extremely well.

Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these "software archaeologists" discovered defunct code that had been lost for 60 years and brought it back to life.

ELIZA was developed in the 1960s by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum and named for Eliza Doolittle, the protagonist of the play "Pygmalion," who was taught how to speak like an aristocratic British woman.