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arXiv:2501.06707 (cs)
[Submitted on 12 Jan 2025]

Title:ELIZA Reanimated: The world's first chatbot restored on the
world's first time sharing system

Authors:Rupert Lane, Anthony Hay, Arthur Schwarz, David M. Berry,
Jeff Shrager
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    Abstract:ELIZA, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the early
    1960s, is usually considered the world's first chatbot. It was
    developed in MAD-SLIP on MIT's CTSS, the world's first
    time-sharing system, on an IBM 7094. We discovered an original
    ELIZA printout in Prof. Weizenbaum's archives at MIT, including
    an early version of the famous DOCTOR script, a nearly complete
    version of the MAD-SLIP code, and various support functions in
    MAD and FAP. Here we describe the reanimation of this original
    ELIZA on a restored CTSS, itself running on an emulated IBM 7094.
    The entire stack is open source, so that any user of a unix-like
    OS can run the world's first chatbot on the world's first
    time-sharing system.

Comments: In review
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society
          (cs.CY); Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
Cite as:  arXiv:2501.06707 [cs.AI]
          (or arXiv:2501.06707v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
          https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.06707
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From: Jeff Shrager [view email]
[v1] Sun, 12 Jan 2025 04:23:34 UTC (22 KB)
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