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Code for ELIZA, the OG chatbot, found

Gail P Sherman
Jan 20, 2025
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ELIZA

In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum published a journal article detailing ELIZA, "a program … which makes certain types of natural language conversation between man and computer possible." He had created the first chatbot and named it after Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney character from Pygmalion and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady.

Although chatbots purpo…

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