This Chatbot Sat in an MIT Box for 50 Years #eliza #chatbot #ai

ELIZA, the first chatbot, built by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in 1966, is running its original code again after sitting unseen in an MIT archive box for over 50 years, and it still answers his paper's conversation word for word. Its creator spent the rest of his life warning that people would get attached to chatbots, and today OpenAI says more than a million ChatGPT users show heightened emotional attachment.