Is arxiv just a blogging platform now? This isn't a research paper.
You should see some of Schmidhuber's stuff, he uses scientific journals as his blogging host.
ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not intended as a chatbot
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Re: ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not intended as a chatbot
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quick plug; mine is based on Weizenbaum's original (or at least on his notes/specifications, as the source code wasn't available when I built mine) https://christopherdrum.itch.io/eliza8
Is your source code open somewhere it can be read?
There is a link right on that very page to download, "eliza8_source.zip"
Additionally, the "cartridge" can be opened by Pico-8 and viewed/edited/copied freely (free educational version of Pico-8 can do this as well https://www.pico-8-edu.com/)
Re: ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not intended as a chatbot
#23Except it WAS intended as a chatbot... as a tool "for research into human-machine conversation and the important cognitive processes of interpretation and misinterpretation". It's like saying the guy who invented the screwdriver didn't invent it because he was REALLY just trying to build a cabinet. The reason a tool was invented does not mean the tool isn't what the tool is.
It was intended as a chatbot in the sense that it provides an appearance of conversation when it’s basically a simple parlor trick. The technology of ELIZA wasn’t the interesting part, it was how people convinced themselves it actually had intelligence.
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#24Re: ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not intended as a chatbot
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It at least establishes that it wasn't intended as a public chatbot. To extend your analogy: it's as if the inventor of the screwdriver threw away his tool afterwards and someone found it in his trash and mass manufactured it. The cabinet maker wasn't trying to make a [new standard tool for how to drive screws] (screwdriver) but was making a tool [to drive screws for just one project] (screwdriver).
The “public” distinction feels anachronistic when applied to early 1960s software. This was a time before networks and software distributions. The idea that software could be standardized and shared instead of written for a particular computer was not widespread. So it’s a bit disingenuous to say that Eliza wasn’t intended as a public chatbot, when practically no software was intended to be public.
Yeah. That's actually one of the things that makes this story so interesting: It took place exactly at the dawn of the inter(arap)net, and physically close to BBN (which was the arpanet implementor), so there was lots of sharing between MIT and BBN, in particular, McCarthy put a lisp on BBN's PDP-1, and Bernie Cosell's Lisp ELIZA, which he did from the algorithm in Wiezenbaum's CACM paper, was the one that became public, so everyone thought that ELIZA had originally been implemented in Lisp, which was wrong!