I’ve not heard of Eliza before. Thank you for sharing that. I just did a search using Copilot; it brought up possibilities from different sources.
She is ANCIENT!
(Think of the days when a ASR-33 TTY was your terminal!)
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tell me about eliza computer theripist
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ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program developed at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum from 1964 to 1967. It simulated conversation by using a pattern matching and substitution methodology, giving users an illusion of understanding. The most famous script, DOCTOR, simulated a psychotherapist of the Rogerian school, reflecting back patients’ words with non-directional questions
Although ELIZA couldn’t truly understand, many early users attributed human-like feelings to it
When it first appeared, some people even mistook ELIZA for a human.
Quite the chatbot trailblazer!
The source code was available and was easily modified to mess with your chums, friends or family.
Placing their name into the now modified Eliza’s ping file, you could tailor extra answers specifically to each individual.
Insults and corny ‘suggestions’ and inside information about them would really jack them around!
Those were the days!!