World’s first chatbot, ELIZA, resurrected from 60-year-old computer code

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, believed to be the first electronic chatbot. In their paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, the team describes the code written in the 1960s by now-deceased MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum.

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