Inventing ELIZA : how the first chatbot shaped the future of AI / Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry, Anthony C. Hay, Mark C. Marino, Peter Millican, Arthur I. Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, and Peggy Weil ; foreword by Janet H. Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ciston, Sarah, Author.

Berry, David M. (David Michael), author.

Hay, Anthony C., author.

Marino, Mark C., author.

Millican, P. J. R., author.

Schwarz, Arthur I., author.

Shrager, Jeff, author.

Weil, Peggy, author.

Contributor:

Murray, Janet Horowitz, 1946- writer of foreword.

Series:

Software studies (Cambridge, Mass.)

Software studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weizenbaum, Joseph.

ELIZA (Computer program).

Chatbots.

Natural language processing (Computer science).

Artificial intelligence--History.

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Inventing ELIZA examines Joseph Weizenbaum's groundbreaking conversational system, ELIZA, through newly discovered source code in order to reveal how this seemingly simple chatbot transformed ideas about artificial intelligence and society's response to them, offering crucial historical perspective on our contemporary relationship with algorithmic conversation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Janet H. Murray

Please go on : an introduction

A life in software : Joseph Weizenbaum

How ELIZA works

Development anarchy

ELIZA's personas : scripts and dialogues

The ELIZA source code

The DOCTOR script

ELIZA-inspired bots

The blurring test : MrMind

Learning from ELIZA in philosophy and AI

Go on now : what future language models can learn from ELIZA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Ciston, Sarah Inventing ELIZA

ISBN:

9780262052481

0262052482

OCLC:

1533994743