#Human-Computer Interaction

The deeper story behind the world's first chatbot — what ELIZA revealed about human psychology, the nature of language, and the gap between the appearance of understanding and its reality. We go beyond the famous chatbot story to the philosophical questions it raised, and why those questions matter more than ever in the age of large language models.

He built the world's first chatbot as a demonstration of how shallow conversation could be — and watched in horror as people fell in love with it. The story of Joseph Weizenbaum: the man who understood, earlier and more clearly than almost anyone, what was dangerous about our relationship with intelligent machines, and who spent the rest of his life trying to make the world hear the warning.