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ELIZA becomes one of the first human-machine dialogues

ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine

Date: January 1966
Category: Research breakthrough
Organization / Model: MIT
Evidence: 1 source · 1 evidence family

Weizenbaum released ELIZA at MIT, simulating a psychotherapist with pattern matching. As one of the earliest dialogue programs it also drew attention to the human tendency to anthropomorphise machines, later called the ELIZA effect.

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eliza
Chatbots
Natural language processing

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Original paper · Communications of the ACM1966-01-01

ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine

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