alt.hn

5/17/2025 at 4:58:20 PM

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

https://github.com/anthay/ELIZA

by m1guelpf

5/17/2025 at 8:48:45 PM

> 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?

by tantalor

5/17/2025 at 11:22:34 PM

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

by throwaway81523

5/17/2025 at 8:15:45 PM

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

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

by johnea

5/17/2025 at 9:17:19 PM

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

by Animats

5/17/2025 at 9:48:22 PM

Yes it was, handsome!

by wpollock