
Joseph Weizenbaum created the ELIZA chatbot at MIT
“Weizenbaum. Rebel at work”
An innovative chatbot created in the 1960s has been carefully reconstructed from archived records and run for the first time in more than half a century, as part of an effort to preserve one of the oldest examples of artificial intelligence.
It was written by computer scientist ELIZA Joseph Weizenbaum At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in just 420 lines of code. The AI model is very basic compared to what is behind today’s large language models (LLM). ChatGPTbut…