A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza

29 m1guelpf 6 5/17/2025, 4:58:20 PM github.com ↗

Comments (6)

quuxplusone · 13m ago
This footnote on the famous Parry/Doctor conversation is interesting and deeply researched: https://github.com/anthay/ELIZA/blob/master/doc/Trying_to_re...
tantalor · 5h ago
> purpose was not to advance our understanding of intelligence, but to... demonstrate how easily people can be fooled

That actually says a lot about "intelligence", doesn't it?

throwaway81523 · 3h ago
You can run a Lisp version with M-x doctor in Emacs.
Animats · 5h ago
At the time, there was said to be a seduction script for the Eliza engine. Has it ever been found?
wpollock · 4h ago
Yes it was, handsome!
johnea · 6h ago
And how do you _feel_ about LLMs not constituting any kind of "intelligence"?

I'm sorry you feel that I'm over anthropomorphized...