ELIZA was the first computer chatbot. Think of it as the great-great-great-grandparent of ChatGPT.
ELIZA’s source code was written by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966 in the SLIP programming language, which is a fork of MAD. My computer obviously doesn’t run a 66-year-old programming language originally written for the UNIVAC 1107.
I still wanted to test ELIZA as part of my research on early AI, so I was left no other choice but to re-implement ELIZA for modern computers in Python.
If you’d be interested to see for yourself what state-of-the-art AI looked like 59 years ago, feel free to check out my ELIZA Colab notebook.
~Ethan