Weizenbaum, Eliza, and the Boundaries of AI

by Ken Orr

I noted that Joseph Weizenbaum died last month. Weizenbaum was an early computer scientist, most famous perhaps for the creation of Eliza, a very early artificial intelligence (AI) program fashioned around a simple pattern recognition (stimulus-response) model that mimicked the approach used by psychologists and psychiatrists in talking to patients.

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Weizenbaum, Eliza, and the Boundaries of AIThu Apr 24 08:20:13 CDT 2008