Famously, the ELIZA chatbot gave name to the 'ELIZA effect' where users developed an emotional attachment to the machine - this emotional projection, arguably, even more pronounced with today's AIs.
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of its debut, this book presents an in-depth analysis of Weizenbaum’s revolutionary chatbot system, unveiling ELIZA’s original source code and new scripts, as well as demonstrating a system of greater sophistication than previously understood.
This tremendous work traces ELIZA’s conceptual development, how it reshaped perceptions of AI and societal reactions, all while placing it within the historical landscape of early AI.