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Not sure if Weizenbaum would be honoured. > Weizenbaum, for his part, turned away from his own project’s expanding implications. He objected to the idea that s
by vages 4y ago
Not sure if Weizenbaum would be honoured.
> Weizenbaum, for his part, turned away from his own project’s expanding implications. He objected to the idea that something as subtle, intimate, and human as therapy could be reduced to code. He began to argue that fields requiring human compassion and understanding shouldn’t be automated. And he also worried about the same future that Alan Turing had described — one where chatbots regularly fooled people into thinking they were human.
– https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-eliza-effect/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-eliza-effect/
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- fsckboy 4y agonot denigrating Weizenbaum's work at all, but he was a bit of a squeaky wheel on the "I fear for the future" technology/society/"oh the humanity" stuff. I'm pretty sure ChatGPT could do even better justice to that aspect of his career.
- abrax3141 4y agoI’ve thought about this - quite a bit, in fact, and have come to the belief that one can separately respect and honor a person’s contributions. Both JW’s antipathy toward AI, and ELIZA itself, are significant contributions. Just because he rejected ELIZA (which, BTW, I do not think is the way to think of his relationship to it, but that’s a longer story for another time) does not make ELIZA’s influence and historical value vanish.