Tech giants including Amazon and Microsoft restructure their workforce as artificial intelligence transforms industries, ...

It’s easy to sneer at people who say they’ve fallen in love with ChatGPT. But we've been developing confusing feelings for ...

The credulous reaction to his creation transformed Weizenbaum into an important early skeptic of A.I.. “Since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give ...

In 1966, MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum released Eliza (named after the fictional Eliza Doolittle from George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion), the first program that allowed some ...

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 ...

Decades ago, Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and considered one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, predicted AI would never make a good ...

That’s when Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor at MIT, built a chatbot named Eliza. Weizenbaum wrote in an academic journal in 1966 that Eliza “makes certain kinds of natural language conversation ...

Coded and iterated from 1964 to 1967, ELIZA was developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. Rudimentary by today’s standards, ELIZA was a hit at the time of its creation.

Decades ago, Joseph Weizenbaum, an MIT professor considered one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, predicted that AI would never make a good therapist, though it could be made to sound ...