Joseph Weizenbaum

1 milestone · 1966

Joseph Weizenbaum is featured for contributions to AI through ELIZA: The First Chatbot in 1966 during The Birth of AI.

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ELIZA: The First Chatbot

Joseph Weizenbaum created ELIZA, a program that simulated a Rogerian psychotherapist using simple pattern matching. Despite being purely rule-based with no understanding, users became emotionally attached to it and insisted it truly understood them — a phenomenon Weizenbaum found deeply disturbing.

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