ELIZA Outperforms Modern AI

In the 1960s, MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum created ELIZA, a chatbot that simulated a psychotherapist. Consequently, some users-even Weizenbaum's secretary-became emotionally attached to it, and in 2023, ELIZA even outperformed GPT-3.5 in a Turing test study.

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