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Rebuilding ELIZA, the "Mother of All Chatbots"

Rob Beschizza
Jun 20, 2025
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In an age of language learning models and chatbots, passing the Turing test is light work with most correspondents. But the first such machine to win the imitation game was ELIZA, programmed in the mid-1960s by Joseph Wiezenbaum at MIT. In ELIZA Reanimated: Restoring the Mother of All Chatbots to One of the World's First Time-Sharing Syst…

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