Eras of AI: The Chatbot from 1966
MIT Professor Joseph Weizenbaum created the first AI chatbot in 1967. He called it, ELIZA.
The professor wanted to show that people would never mistake a computer for a person if they but knew how the computer worked. The opposite ended up being true and led to the coining of a new phrase, "The Eliza Effect," the tendency to project human traits onto computers with a text interface.
Horrified by his own creation, Weizenbaum spent the rest of his life arguing that it's morally wrong to use computers for tasks that require interpersonal intelligence or empathy—things he believed computers would…
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