In 2021, Jeff Shrager — who had written one of the first ELIZA clones back in the 1970s — convinced MIT archivist Myles ...

Eliza was unveiled in 1966 at MIT by computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. Here's why the chatbot remains relevant today.

Instagram's AI Kurt Cobain chatbot is extremely popular, logging more than 105.5k interactions to date. However, if you look ...

Character.AI allows users to interact with life-like AI “characters”, including fictional and celebrity personas that mimic ...

Large language models such as GPT, Llama, Claude, and DeepSeek can be so fluent that people feel it as a “you,” and it ...

One of the best demonstrations of this is a program written in the 1960s, the famous chatbot Eliza ... you if this relates to your mother. Eliza wasn’t AI in any sense of the word, just a ...

a Belgian man took his own life after engaging in extensive conversations with an AI chatbot called Eliza (unrelated to the one designed in the 1960s). The chatbot's responses may have reinforced ...

The first AI therapist hit the scene in 1966, when MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum invented ELIZA, the first-ever chatbot. ELIZA was a conversation chatbot, programmed to act as a psychotherapist ...

(He's been spared bearing witness to this current AI timeline – he died in 2008.) ELIZA was the first, but now archaic, chatbot therapist Much like the broad reasons people use chatbots ...

In the new book The AI Con, AI critics Emily Bender and Alex Hanna break down the smoke and mirrors around generative AI.

AI developers are starting to talk about ‘welfare’ and ‘spirituality’, raising old questions about the inner lives of ...