The ELIZA Archaeology Project: Uncovering The Original ELIZA

Great find. We had Weizenbaum visting the research organization where I was working in the seventies, a very friendly and humble person. Still remember his quip about expecting a time when computers would become able to sue a person fortythousand times per second. Progress!

Less than half a decade after Weizenbaum published ELIZA I learned Fortran IV programming by feeding punch cards to an old IBM 7090. :-) Somewhat later, I learned SNOBOL4, doing a lot of text processing using SNOBOL and a compiled dialect called Spitbol, on an IBM 370 with MVS. I still have Gimpel: Algorithms in SNOBOL4 (published by CatSpaw about ten years later in 1976) in my personal library. Gimpel mentiones ELIZA on page 375 of his book in the chapter about games, refering to both Weizenbaums original from 1966 and a SNOBOL4 version from Duquet, published in the ACM SIGPLAN Notices and still available here: -> ELIZA IN SNOBOL4.

N.B: I comment this here instead of commenting a forwarded posting, because both extracting an own post from a diaspora dump is far easier and because adding hashtags isn't possible when forwarding.

#Weizenbaum #ELIZA #SNOBOL4 #Spitbol #Gimpel

The ELIZA Archaeology Project: Uncovering the Original ELIZA

#softwaredevelopment #artificialintelligence #eliza #naturallanguageprocessing #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2

Finally I was able to connect to #ChatGPT. I already know that It’s going to be of fun, like back in olden times, with #ELIZA :-D

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(Screenshot of a chat with the AI “ChatGPT”:

Me: Thanks. And please STOP APOLOGIZING :- D

ChatGPT: I apologize for my previous apologies, I understand that it might not be necessary in some situations. As a language model, my goal is to assist users by providing helpful and accurate information, and I will make sure to respond in a manner that is consistent with the context and tone of the conversation. If you have any other question or need any further information, feel free to reach out to me.)

Hey Siri / Alexa / Google

Does anybody remember A.L.I.C.E.? (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity)

Inspired by the early #ArtificialIntelligence efforts, #Voicebot research, #Eliza way back in the last millennium...

Perhaps like Oregon Trail or Walk-Man in the scheme of things, but as an early student of real and aspirational #AI, #ALICE was lots of fun, and I know teens would get into arguments, and try to elicit naughty responses, etc. For therapists and trainees (and patients/clients/analysands) it was fun too. "So why am I sad?" "It is the nature of the universe". "Why?" "Why not?"... Addictive.

"Context and Perspective"

So I just gave a quick visit to my equally ancient web pages serving as bulletin boards, and found this link listed atop my collection of "cool pages". (I told you this was ancient). So I visited the page, found she's still alive. This was before "Hey Siri", please note. :))

So I gave it a try, after many years, my first query to ALICE: With "New Yawk" accent. And you can can see "her" reply. Still fun.

Why not share this? It's aged mostly in the shadows, for 26 years (though it was a Yahoo! Life feature way back when...)
Well, along came AOL, Facebook, and the next thing I knew, nobody knows how to type or read or focus, and "what's a homepage?"

My archives of "fun pages"

Have fun.