Tag: joseph weizenbaum

The Inventor of the Chatbot Tried to Warn Us About A.I.

One day in 1966, in an incident that has since passed into computer science legend, Weizenbaum’s secretary sat down to use ELIZA. The secretary soon asked Weizenbaum to leave the room so that she could have privacy. The thought of needing to be alone to talk to a piece of software—much less one that she […]

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