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🖥️ **Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World’s First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.**

_Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people”_

🔗 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-the-computer-scientist-behind-the-worlds-first-chatbot-dedicated-his-life-to-publicizing-the-threat-posed-by-ai-180987971/.

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Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World's First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I.

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people"

Smithsonian Magazine
Jan 17 at 9:11amWeb
Show threadSamuelJohnsonJan 17
@bibliolater Hadn't read his line about a bartender. 😂 A truly wise man. I need to re-read his book (Computer Power & Human Reason) which I last read when first published--I'm feeling old.
Show threadBibliolater 📚 📜 🖋Jan 17
@samueljohnson Join the club about feeling old, I know exactly how you feel.
Show threadSamuelJohnsonJan 17

@bibliolater According to your profile you're a spring chicken. But a friend of mine who got to his 50s a few years ahead of me told me one day

"Man, once I got to 50 that's when things really began to fall apart"

By things he meant his knees, back, eyes. I was slightly alarmed. I hope in your case the things are external and you'll be around for better days.

Show threadBibliolater 📚 📜 🖋Jan 18
@samueljohnson Thank you for your kind comment. I can confirm your friend's findings that post-fifty is not like pre-fifty. One has to take a great deal more care with one's health and try to keep active as much as possible whether that be mentally or physically.