Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World's First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I. Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people"

Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World's First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.: Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful… @SmithsonianMag #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbot #TechnologyEthics #JosephWeizenbaum

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Before we had an #LLM there was #eliza

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It runs on #CTSS which is the predecessor of #Multics which was before #Unix

Created by #josephweizenbaum in the mid 1960s. Two generations ago. To show only how easy it is to trick people into believing… https://23.social/@tho…

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Before we had an #LLM there was #eliza

https://hackaday.com/2025/06/20/eliza-reanimated/

It runs on #CTSS which is the predecessor of #Multics which was before #Unix

Created by #josephweizenbaum in the mid 1960s. Two generations ago. To show only how easy it is to trick people into believing […]

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions ( People can not tell Chatbots from reality, Joseph Weizenbaum was correct ). Fake Detectors abound. - lemm.ee “What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” ― Joseph Weizenbaum MIT Computer S...

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People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions (People can not tell Chatbots from reality, Joseph Weizenbaum correct) Fake Detectors abound

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Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans

Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first #chatbot turned against #AI| The Guardian
Computer scientist #JosephWeizenbaum was there at the dawn of AI – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers w/humans
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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 p...

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

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New tripleC article: Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski: Against the Power of Computers & the Destruction of Reason. For the Development of Human Creativity & Judgement. Remembering #JosephWeizenbaum on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday. #Eliza #ChatGPT
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