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

Posted by m1guelpf on Saturday May 17, 2025 @12:58PM
from the github.com dept.

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Re:A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza by johnea on Saturday May 17, 2025 @04:15PM (#44016689)

And how do you _feel_ about LLMs not constituting any kind of "intelligence"?

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

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Re:A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza by tantalor on Saturday May 17, 2025 @04:48PM (#44016889)

> 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?

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Re:A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza by Animats on Saturday May 17, 2025 @05:17PM (#44017026)

At the time, there was said to be a seduction script for the Eliza engine. Has it ever been found?

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Re:A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza by wpollock on Saturday May 17, 2025 @05:48PM (#44017241)

Yes it was, handsome!

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Re:A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza by throwaway81523 on Saturday May 17, 2025 @07:22PM (#44017738)

You can run a Lisp version with M-x doctor in Emacs.

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Re:A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza by quuxplusone on Saturday May 17, 2025 @10:21PM (#44018490)

This footnote on the famous Parry/Doctor conversation is interesting and deeply researched: https://github.com/anthay/ELIZA/blob/master/doc/Trying_to_re...

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