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 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…
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…
New research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that texting a random human peer daily reduces loneliness over time, while chatting with an AI chatbot does not. The study…
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 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…