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This conversation is like listening to some executive's over-caffeinated assistant trying to help her boss's overly Xanax'd therapist. Not sure what the take-a
by drzaiusapelord 15y ago
This conversation is like listening to some executive's over-caffeinated assistant trying to help her boss's overly Xanax'd therapist. Not sure what the take-away here is other than Eliza is such a lazy program. It just falls back onto open-ended questions when confused and doesn't really do anything productive at all.
- ugh 15y agoThat’s the point, though, isn’t it? I think Weizenbaum was pretty devastated when people actually took it serious.
- sp332 15y agoEliza is actually an AI-building platform. The "doctor" program was like a Hello World, it didn't really show what the platform was capable of. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ELIZA https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ELIZA
- vidarh 15y agoUsing open-ended questions and parroting mirrors what good human listeners do. We treat it as lazy only because we know that in this instance it happens because it's the easy way out of a situation where the program doesn't have another response.