ROBOT Therapy with ELIZA: The Original Chatterbot
- Date
- November 21, 2023
- Time
- 12:00 PM EST - 1:00 PM EST
- Location
- Online
- Contact
- tpobuda@torontomu.ca
- Website
- https://cdh.rula.info/newsletter/ (external link)
Host: Reg Beatty
Join Reg as he ‘looks under the hood’ of ELIZA, a chatbot therapist, designed by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966. At the time, Weizenbaum was alarmed at the way users responded emotionally to the program. We will also discuss the ongoing implications of the ELIZA effect and contemporary Chatbot culture.
Have a session with ELIZA! https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html (external link)
Weizenbaum’s original paper “ELIZA — A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man And Machine.” (PDF file) https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs124/p36-weizenabaum.pdf (external link)
A closer look at ELIZA’s code. https://like-a-boss.net/2018/08/24/eliza-a-tutorial-reconstruction-in-prolog.html (external link)
