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 ...

This comes sixty years after Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT created ELIZA, named after the character Eliza Doolittle from Pygmalion and generally regarded as the original operating chatbot. The idea of ...

Developed in the 1960s by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum, ELIZA was named after Eliza Doolittle, the protagonist from the play "Pygmalion," who transforms her speech to pass as a member of high ...

As the world grapples with a flood of Large Language Models, some computer programmers have gone old school, reaching back to where it all began by reanimating the first chatbot using its original ...

Not since the advent of the internet and the iPhone has there been a tech advancement that's caused such a boom.

ELIZA was written by computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in just 420 lines of code. The AI model is extremely rudimentary compared with today’s ...

The seven decades of "artificial intelligence" have been marked by exaggerated promises, surprising developments and ...

AI designed to mimic human interaction can exploit weaknesses in our minds and emotions—with catastrophic consequences.