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arXiv:2406.17650 (cs)
[Submitted on 25 Jun 2024]

Title:ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not intended
as a chatbot at all

Authors:Jeff Shrager
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    Abstract:ELIZA, often considered the world's first chatbot, was
    written by Joseph Weizenbaum in the early 1960s. Weizenbaum did
    not intend to invent the chatbot, but rather to build a platform
    for research into human-machine conversation and the important
    cognitive processes of interpretation and misinterpretation. His
    purpose was obscured by ELIZA's fame, resulting in large part
    from the fortuitous timing of it's creation, and it's escape into
    the wild. In this paper I provide a rich historical context for
    ELIZA's creation, demonstrating that ELIZA arose from the
    intersection of some of the central threads in the technical
    history of AI. I also briefly discuss how ELIZA escaped into the
    world, and how its accidental escape, along with several
    coincidental turns of the programming language screws, led both
    to the misapprehension that ELIZA was intended as a chatbot, and
    to the loss of the original ELIZA to history for over 50 years.

Comments: In review in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
          (submitted Apr 2024)
          Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language
Subjects: (cs.CL); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Human-Computer
          Interaction (cs.HC)
Cite as:  arXiv:2406.17650 [cs.AI]
          (or arXiv:2406.17650v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
          https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.17650
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          arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

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From: Jeff Shrager [view email]
[v1] Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:41:40 UTC (31 KB)
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