Scientists have just resurrected "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works extremely well. Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these "software ...

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

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

On December 21, 2024, just before 2 pm, scientists made the dead speak. ELIZA, the world’s first chatbot is back. Long imitated, but not perfectly replicated, ELIZA has long been thought lost.

reaching back to where it all began by reanimating the first chatbot using its original code. This comes sixty years after Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT created ELIZA, named after the character Eliza ...

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I’ll admit that, at first, I was interested in what the Advisor ... of this is a program written in the 1960s, the famous chatbot Eliza. Inspired by Rogerian psychotherapy, all the Eliza bot ...

Milestones along the way include ELIZA, essentially the first chatbot, developed in 1964 by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, and -- skipping ahead 40 years -- when Google's autocomplete ...

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, ...