A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza (opens in new tab)

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35 pointsm1guelpf10mo ago6 comments

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> 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?

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

johnea10mo ago

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

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

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

Animats10mo ago

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

Yes it was, handsome!

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