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A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza

by m1guelpf on 5/17/25, 4:58 PM with 6 comments

• by tantalor on 5/17/25, 8:48 PM

  > purpose was not to advance our understanding of intelligence, but to... demonstrate how easily people can be fooled

  That actually says a lot about "intelligence", doesn't it?

• by throwaway81523 on 5/17/25, 11:22 PM

  You can run a Lisp version with M-x doctor in Emacs.

• by johnea on 5/17/25, 8:15 PM

  And how do you _feel_ about LLMs not constituting any kind of "intelligence"?

  I'm sorry you feel that I'm over anthropomorphized...

• by quuxplusone on 5/18/25, 2:21 AM

  This footnote on the famous Parry/Doctor conversation is interesting and deeply researched: https://github.com/anthay/ELIZA/blob/master/doc/Trying_to_re...

• by Animats on 5/17/25, 9:17 PM

  At the time, there was said to be a seduction script for the Eliza engine. Has it ever been found?