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The ELIZA Effect

99% Invisible

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Artificial Intelligence - What Is It?

Wisenbaum objected to the idea that something as subtle, intimate, and human as therapy could be reduced to code. He worried that if machines snuck into the therapist's office, then where else might they end up? Wisenbaum also worried about the same future that Alan Turing had described: One were chatbots regularly fooled people into thinking they were interacting with a human.

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