The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT
A new book titled 'Inventing ELIZA' recovers the original source code of the pioneering 1960s chatbot to explore its historical impact and misconceptions. The authors examine how the program's design influenced human-computer interaction and continues to shape modern AI development.
However, in all those accounts—even after all its adaptations across programming languages and research fields, in classrooms and popular culture—one essential piece of the story has been missing: the source code for the ELIZA program itself. Our new book, Inventing ELIZA, recovers this source code from the MIT Archives, offering for the first time a close reading and discussion of that code along with newly uncovered dialogs for ELIZA scripts beyond its popular “DOCTOR” persona.
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