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Now I’m wondering if I should maybe move all my computing to #Eliza and use it as a system shell? Natural language commands—even this restricted, or, rather, exactly this deterministically restricted—are so sick!
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Updating my projects page <https://aartaka.me/projects.html> made me recall that I did a mostly compliant #Eliza re-implementation <https://codeberg.org/aartaka/laliza> in the past. Now I’m tempted by it again, but want to add some more features to it, like nested structures and symbol explosions. This will make it a reasonable #programming system, actually!

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Artyom Bologov’s Projects

Artyom’s projects—mostly weekend nerd snipes

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Eliza for the TI-99/4A

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Anybody here remember using the program #Eliza that came out of MIT back in the mid-60s? It was a first attempt at interpreting natural language in order to give the illusion of conversing with a computer. A primitive version of what people are doing now with LLMs. It used a small set of simple rules to parse text entered at a terminal, and to spit back what appeared to be a cogent response. People fell for it the same way they are now. I used it a couple times.

#Claude and #ChatGPT very often say stuff like „You're right on all counts.“

And it really calls back the feeling I‘ve had when using #Eliza for the first time:

„ELIZA: Please tell me what's been bothering you.
YOU: Mankind.
ELIZA: That is interesting. Please continue.
YOU: They‘re ridiculous.
ELIZA: Please go on.
YOU: What should I do?
ELIZA: Do you say what should you do for some special reason ?
YOU: Of course.
ELIZA: Tell me more about that.“

https://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/eliza.html

Eliza

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