Meet the creator of the world's first chatbot ELIZA, who warned that AI can never replace humans

Long before ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and virtual assistants a simple computer program created in an MIT laboratory captivated ...

In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum developed ELIZA at MIT, an early program that inspired today's chatbots

In 1966, a simple program named ELIZA surprised scientists by eliciting human-like emotional responses. Despite its basic ...
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Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World’s First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...