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A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza
A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1966 ELIZA - anthay/ELIZA
ELIZA is a chatbot—the first chatbot—written between 1964-1966 by Joseph Weizenbaum, Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, and part-supported by the US Department of Defence Project MAC. The script contains simple pattern matching rules that ELIZA uses to reflect back parts of the text typed in by the user. Weizenbaum's purpose was not to advance our understanding of intelligence, but to create the illusion that ELIZA understood what had been said to it in order to demonstrate how easily people can be fooled.
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