A condensed timeline traces AI's 80-year arc from artificial neurons and the Turing Test in the 1940s–50s through the first AI winter, the backpropagation breakthrough, statistical machine learning, a…
The Internet Archive has launched a Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection featuring emulated software from the 1970s through the 1990s that portrays thinking machines, including early conversatio…
A developer explains the evolution of AI through distinct stages over 70 years, from rule-based systems to modern large language models and AI agents. The post highlights how each stage removed limita…
The article traces the history of artificial intelligence from John McCarthy's 1955 Dartmouth workshop proposal to the present, arguing that the field's borrowed vocabulary—words like 'learning,' 'vis…
A developer has built an upgraded version of the classic ELIZA chatbot using a sparse autoencoder with a large latent memory layer, achieving logarithmic memory scaling and resistance to catastrophic …
A new MIT Press book, 'Inventing ELIZA,' provides the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum's pioneering chatbot through rediscovered original source code and previously unseen sc…
The original source code for ELIZA, the first chatbot created by Joseph Weizenbaum in the mid-1960s, has been unearthed from MIT's archives and analyzed by researchers in the new MIT Press book 'Inven…
A new book, *Inventing ELIZA*, recovers the original source code of the ELIZA chatbot from the MIT Archives, revealing multiple versions and scripts beyond the popular 'DOCTOR' persona. The book exami…
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…
John Gruber reflects on his experience with the proto-chatbot ELIZA, calling it a "selfless void" and arguing that people who considered it a useful confidant "suffered-a-permanent-head-injury wrong."…
The ELIZA Archaeology Project is restoring and contextualizing the original 1960s ELIZA chatbot, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT, which pioneered human-computer conversation and revealed the 'Eliz…
The ELIZA Archaeology Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative, explores the history and cultural impact of the ELIZA chatbot, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the 1960s. The project ai…
Thousands of people believe chatbots like ChatGPT are conscious, yet no one attributes the same to image generators like Midjourney, despite similar underlying technology. This dichotomy highlights a …
A developer created 'Turing's Mirror', a browser game that challenges players to distinguish between human and AI-generated text across five rounds representing key years in AI history. Built with van…
A new study from the University of British Columbia found that chatting with an AI chatbot is no match for talking to real human beings, even strangers, in terms of social connection. The research, wh…