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Chapter One - To Know the Present
Through the Past
Sideline
/ The first chatbot /
ELIZA, an early natural language processing
programme launched in 1966, was developed by
Professor Joseph Weizenbaum of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT). It acted as a practitioner
in Rogerian psychotherapy. It could communicate
with people in an empathic and respectful attitude,
many people who spoke to ELIZA, including the
secretary of Weizenbaum, were convinced of
ELIZA’s intelligence and perceptive ability. However,
Weizenbaum insisted that ELIZA did not really 093
understand the content of a conversation.
