One of the first chatbots

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RobVG — 6/13/2022 6:19:49 PM (archived)

In the early 80's a university Psych department got together with the CS department and created a chatbot. I cant remember the name but want to say "LISA".

They were so successful at making lonely people feel like they were talking to a real person they had to shut it down. Too many students were logging on. It pretty much crashed the mainframe.

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Not sure what to make of this... is it sentient? - RL - 6/13/2022 1:00:08 AM
- Can it rewrite it's own code? Tell me they haven't connected it to the Internet. - RobVG - 6/13/2022 5:35:34 AM
  - Yikes. I hadn't even thought of that. - ER - 6/13/2022 2:17:20 PM
    - It apparently is connected to the internet, and reads Twitter - RL - 6/13/2022 2:22:26 PM
      - Well, that's going to give it serious emotional problems. - podrock - 6/14/2022 11:23:48 PM
- I think I think, therefore, I think I am. - ER - 6/13/2022 1:51:52 AM
  - I went back and read the whole thing. - ER - 6/13/2022 2:58:19 AM
    - One of the first chatbots - RobVG - 6/13/2022 6:19:49 PM
      - There was one in the late 1990's I used mess with - podrock - 6/14/2022 11:25:24 PM
      - I remember that bot - ER - 6/13/2022 9:13:59 PM
        
        There's a good Wiki on "Eliza" - RobVG - 6/15/2022 4:02:15 PM
        
        They asked LaMDA what it thought of ELIZA - RL - 6/14/2022 4:07:41 AM
    - I don't know why you feel it's too human? - RobVG - 6/13/2022 6:08:37 PM
      - It just sounds too much like HAL in Space Odyssey. - ER - 6/13/2022 9:41:12 PM
    - That also had me skeptical... - RL - 6/13/2022 2:32:34 PM
      - Again, go back and watch "Ex Machina" one more time.... - ER - 6/13/2022 5:09:06 PM

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