How Eliza Can Help You Assess Your Personality

A typical Eliza program scans the input for certain keywords and grammatical forms. It replies based on a template, filling in the blanks using words in the input. Another strategy used by recent internet-based versions of Eliza is to build up a database of previous conversations which enables it to repeat phrases that other users have typed in. As far as I can tell, basically they're a kind of chatbot. It's a program telling you something about yourself, just feeding back stock responses. There's nothing intelligent behind it.