#ElizaEffect ::: #SurkovWonBig #MonoMythCracked #FWakeEliza
“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” - 1976 #FWakeY1976 #FWakeYear1976
The ELIZA Effect - 99% Invisible
Throughout Joseph Weizenbaum’s life, he liked to tell this story about a computer program he’d created back in the 1960s as a professor at MIT. It was a simple chatbot named ELIZA that could interact with users in a typed conversation. As he enlisted people to try it out, Weizenbaum saw similar reactions again and