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Eliza comes up a lot in these discussions. I’d like to know if would have the same results today, now that chatbots, video games, phone robots, etc. have given

Eliza comes up a lot in these discussions. I’d like to know if would have the same results today, now that chatbots, video games, phone robots, etc. have given millions of people the mental model of getting responses from a box with no thoughts. I expect it would very different from running the experiment at a time when the only things that could talk back when talked to were other people.

wombatmobile 6y ago
Eliza (seemingly) implements a rudimentary conversational model of psychotherapy that facilitates transference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversational_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversational_model This model differs from goal orientated transactional conversational models e.g. phone robots in so far as the objective is not to direct behaviour, but rather to facilitate self-expression, a task which can be performed with sparse requirements for real-world logical semantic modelling. Eliza could always keep within the bounds of transference by deflecting back to interlocutor e.g. You said earlier that ____________ Are you worried about __________ Tell me why not? Do you like talking about __________ Anything specific? Let's talk about something more interesting. - - - Well, not always. Eliza was easily derailed into revealing its logical semantic paucity, thus breaking the spell of transference. GPT-3 has reached a significantly higher plateau of semantic pseudo-competency, but what if it were applied simply to the application of transference conversation? So long as it allows lonely people to chat away without breaking the spell, that might be enough for GPT-3 to earn $3 a month. Could there be a market for friendertainment? https://phys.org/news/2018-12-americans-lonely.html https://phys.org/news/2018-12-americans-lonely.html
- amelius 6y ago
  > Could there be a market for friendertainment? Aren't there tons of English-speaking people in third-world countries capable of being worthy pen-pals and filling this market gap?

wombatmobile 6y ago

Eliza (seemingly) implements a rudimentary conversational model of psychotherapy that facilitates transference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversational_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversational_model This model differs from goal orientated transactional conversational models e.g. phone robots in so far as the objective is not to direct behaviour, but rather to facilitate self-expression, a task which can be performed with sparse requirements for real-world logical semantic modelling. Eliza could always keep within the bounds of transference by deflecting back to interlocutor e.g. You said earlier that ____________ Are you worried about __________ Tell me why not? Do you like talking about __________ Anything specific? Let's talk about something more interesting. - - - Well, not always. Eliza was easily derailed into revealing its logical semantic paucity, thus breaking the spell of transference. GPT-3 has reached a significantly higher plateau of semantic pseudo-competency, but what if it were applied simply to the application of transference conversation? So long as it allows lonely people to chat away without breaking the spell, that might be enough for GPT-3 to earn $3 a month. Could there be a market for friendertainment? https://phys.org/news/2018-12-americans-lonely.html https://phys.org/news/2018-12-americans-lonely.html

amelius 6y ago
> Could there be a market for friendertainment? Aren't there tons of English-speaking people in third-world countries capable of being worthy pen-pals and filling this market gap?