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> ELIZA's the name of a crude parody of a chatbot, produced in the 1960s. I think this is unfair to the technical challenges inherent in implementing something
by derstander 4y ago
> ELIZA's the name of a crude parody of a chatbot, produced in the 1960s.
I think this is unfair to the technical challenges inherent in implementing something like ELIZA (in the 60’s!).
Crude parody would be fair if it was released today. A phrase that might better account for the state of computing in the 60s would be “distant precursor to modern chatbots”.
If Wikipedia is to be believed, ELIZA was written for the IBM 7094 which boasted performance of something like 200 kflops (yes, kiloflops).