1966 CE
ELIZA
Artificial intelligence · Machine learning
Joseph Weizenbaum publishes ELIZA, one of the first famous conversational programs and an early chatbot reference. Its responses used rules and word substitution, allowing researchers to observe how readily users attributed understanding to the program.
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