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A great little read! I had no idea there was a term for the gap between people’s anticipation of intelligence, as versus the actual intelligence behind the curtain. Even cooler to see the source of the instigating program, and also get to try it out myself.
This webpage just gives museum vibes in such a good way. Anyone know of any existing communities that collect these kinds of historical education pages? I’d love to have a backlog of pages to visit like this to spend my idle time.
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There was a Co-Recursive podcast episode on this topic as well. It was a decent listen. It has some more interesting links on the site/page. Episode Link
corecursive.comThe History and Mystery Of ElizaI recently got an email from Jeff Shrager, who said he'd been working hard to solve a mystery about some famous code.
Eliza, the chatbot, was built in 1964, and she didn't answer questions like Alexa or Siri. She asked questions. She was a therapist chatbot and quickly became famous after being described in a 1964 paper.
But here is the mystery. We're not sure how the original version worked. Joseph Weizenbaum never released the code. But Jeff tracked it down, and some of the things we thought we knew about Eliza turned out to be wrong.