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Code for ELIZA, the OG chatbot, found

In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum published a journal article detailing ELIZA, "a program … which makes certain types of natural ...
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World's first chatbot, ELIZA, resurrected from 60-year-old computer code

A small team of researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. has resurrected the code for a 60-year-old chatbot named ELIZA, believed to be the first electronic chatbot. In their paper posted to the arXiv ...
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Scientists Have Resurrected ELIZA, the World’s First Chatbot

On December 21, 2024, just before 2 pm, scientists made the dead speak. ELIZA, the world’s first chatbot is back. Long imitated, but not perfectly replicated, ELIZA has long been thought lost. But ...