If anyone's missing the reference here, maybe the biggest thing we learned about chat bots from Eliza was about ourselves, not about NLP or a heap of IF stateme

If anyone's missing the reference here, maybe the biggest thing we learned about chat bots from Eliza was about ourselves, not about NLP or a heap of IF statements. We learned that humans are emotionally hardwired to crave expression. > My secretary watched me work on this program over a long period of time. One day she asked to be permitted to talk with the system. Of course, she knew she was talking to a machine. Yet, after I watched her type in a few sentences she turned to me and said: ‘Would you mind leaving the room, please?’ https://theconversation.com/my-search-for-the-mysterious-missing-secretary-who-shaped-chatbot-history-225602 https://theconversation.com/my-search-for-the-mysterious-mis...