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2026-07-08
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‘PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR’ — Chatbot on Chatbot Action Circa 1973
In 1973, psychiatrist Kenneth Colby created PARRY, an ELIZA-style chatbot simulating a paranoid schizophrenic, and connected it to ELIZA (DOCTOR). Vint Cerf published the transcript as an RFC, showcas…