Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

BERLIN — Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer programmer who helped advance artificial intelligence only to become a critic of the technology later in his life, has died. He was 85. Weizenbaum died March 5 ...

Joseph Weizenbaum, whose famed conversational computer program, Eliza, foreshadowed the potential of artificial intelligence, but who grew skeptical about the potential for technology to improve the ...

In 1966, computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum built a primitive computer program he named ELIZA. Almost immediately, he regretted his creation. Developed to mimic simple psychotherapy exchanges, ELIZA ...

BERLIN -- Joseph Weizenbaum, 85, a computer programmer who helped advance artificial intelligence only to become a critic of the technology later in his life, died March 5 of complications from ...