A small team of researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. has resurrected the code for a 60-year-old chatbot named ELIZA, ...

Software archeologists have successfully pulled 'Eliza,' the world's first chatbot from the 1960s, back from digital oblivion ...

This comes sixty years after Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT created ELIZA, named after the character Eliza Doolittle from Pygmalion and generally regarded as the original operating chatbot. The idea of a ...

The hype around AI, the now failed U.S. attempt to monopolise it, and the recent counter from China are a lesson in how to ...

Joseph Weizenbaum published a journal article detailing ELIZA, "a program … which makes certain types of natural language ...

Coded and iterated from 1964 to 1967, ELIZA was developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. Rudimentary by today’s standards, ELIZA was a hit at the time of its creation. He gave it ...

Joseph Weizenbaum was born in Berlin, Germany, on January 8, 1923. Coming from a Jewish family, he escaped the threats of Nazi Germany by immigrating to the United States with his family in ...

ELIZA was developed in the 1960s by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum and named for Eliza Doolittle, the protagonist of the play "Pygmalion," who was taught how to speak like an aristocratic British ...

The seven decades of "artificial intelligence" have been marked by exaggerated promises, surprising developments and ...

Developed in the 1960s by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum, ELIZA was named after Eliza Doolittle, the protagonist from the play “Pygmalion,” who transforms her speech to pass as a member of ...