{"slug": "parry-encounters-the-doctor-chatbot-on-chatbot-action-circa-1973", "title": "‘PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR’ — Chatbot on Chatbot Action Circa 1973", "summary": "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, showcasing an early chatbot-on-chatbot interaction. Cerf, known as a father of the internet, recently retired from Google at age 83.", "body_md": "Back in the primordial days of AI, PARRY was an ELIZA-style chatbot created by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby to simulate the words of a paranoid schizophrenic. Someone had the genius idea to connect it to ELIZA (a.k.a. “DOCTOR”). Vint Cerf published the transcript as an RFC in 1973, and I laughed my ass off reading it. A taste:\n\nDo you know anything about bookies?What makes you think I know anything about bookies?\n\nA bookie didn’t pay me off once.What does that suggest to you?\n\nI beat up the bookie who did not pay off, and I thought he might use his friends in the underworld to get even with me.What else would you like to discuss?\n\nWhat do you know about racketeers?\n\n[Thanks to Bob Peterson](https://mastodon.social/@HootenHaller/116886431616601833) for the link.\n\nVint Cerf, by the way, [retired from Google last week](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/) at the spry age of 83.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/parry-encounters-the-doctor-chatbot-on-chatbot-action-circa-1973", "canonical_source": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc439/", "published_at": "2026-07-08 22:38:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-08 22:47:49.911601+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["PARRY", "Kenneth Colby", "ELIZA", "DOCTOR", "Vint Cerf", "Google"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/parry-encounters-the-doctor-chatbot-on-chatbot-action-circa-1973", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/parry-encounters-the-doctor-chatbot-on-chatbot-action-circa-1973.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/parry-encounters-the-doctor-chatbot-on-chatbot-action-circa-1973.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/parry-encounters-the-doctor-chatbot-on-chatbot-action-circa-1973.jsonld"}}