It's also worth noting that the creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was shocked that the software was suggested as a replacement for real psychiatrists - so history rep

It's also worth noting that the creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was shocked that the software was suggested as a replacement for real psychiatrists - so history repeating itself? Quote from your wiki-source: > Lay responses to ELIZA were disturbing to Weizenbaum and motivated him to write his book Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, in which he explains the limits of computers, as he wants to make clear in people's minds his opinion that the anthropomorphic views of computers are just a reduction of the human being and any life form for that matter. [...]