Is anyone familiar with this program! It's birth was in the 60s and could be run from Arpanet. It purported to be a therapist and would respond to your statements and questions in that manner. It was an early artificial intelligence program developed to pass the Turing test. Initially, it can appear to be a human but careful selection of your responses revealed its origins.

I've found the source code, written in an old BASIC dialect. I am converting it to FreeBASIC, a C-like dialect.

I'll share my trials and trials.

 

Is anyone familiar with this program

I alluded to it here, but no one got the reference.

I still have the TRS-80 version.

 

I like the old adventure game. XYZZY!

 

That program was by Joseph Weizenbaum, but he was an AI skeptic and wrote it to show how easily simple tricks could fool people into thinking that the machine was intelligent. Back in the 1960s this was much easier to do, as nobody had much experience of dealing with automatic machines.

I can remember one little sample. You'd say, "My mom liked my brother better than me", and the computer would respond, "That's very interesting. Tell me more about your family". And you'd be impressed because the machine had made the link between named family members and the word "family", but it was just a canned response with zero depth behind it. Then if the conversation wandered, a few lines later it might toss "We were talking about your brother" at you. So the machine had showed it had a memory and you might think it had a purpose in directing the conversation. Or you'd swear at it, and it would come back with "Are such obscenities frequently on your mind?" Again, associating an item on a list of words with a larger category. Supposedly Weizenbaum ended up feeling quite disappointed by how easily people were fooled.

 

http://elizagen.org/

 

Now I remember how much I hated this program.

http://manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3/

 

Now I remember how much I hated this program.

http://manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3/

Why such intense feelings toward an inanimate piece of s....oftware.

 

AI has come a very very long way

 

Why such intense feelings toward an inanimate piece of s....oftware.

Your correct response should be

"Why do you ask"?

or are you V2?

 

AI has come a very very long way

There are a few posters on this forum that I suspect are AI.

 

I am not one but that would be a interesting challenge to try to make one, if I ever get really into programing I might try.
AIDayley

 

I am not one but that would be a interesting challenge to try to make one, if I ever get really into programing I might try.
AIDayley

Only an AI would answer like that.

 

Your correct response should be

"Why do you ask"?

or are you V2?

OK. You got me. What is V2?

 

OK. You got me. What is V2?

Version 2.

Type in

Why such intense feelings toward an inanimate piece of s....oftware.

into Eliza.

 

Version 2.

Not hardly, but my wife is version 3.0
The minor revision never changes because you can't make even minor changes.

 

Only an AI would answer like that.

Only a AI would be so picky about how you start sentences and end them
AIDayley

 

Only a AI would be so picky about how you start sentences and end them
AIDayley

If you saw some of the long run on posts with no punctuation or even paragraph breaks, you would understand.

 

The internet posting robot will send in pictures of cats and get into pointless arguments with strangers.

 

Now I remember how much I hated this program.

http://manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3/

Pure magic.

 

A version of Eliza in an obscure language from the dark ages (A year or two BD*) of computing:
http://www.xpl0.org/ELIZA.ZIP

*BD -- Before Disk. If I recall correctly, This version was originally written using an audio tape for program storage.