ELIZA Reanimated

An AI that only answers questions (Siri, Alexa, chatGPT) is a glorified slave, one cannot have a meaningful relationship with it, e.g. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailyscript.com&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;exMachina_script.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailyscript.com&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;exMachina_script.pdf</a>)<p><pre><code> AVA Do you want to be my friend? CALEB ... Of course. AVA Will it be possible? CALEB Why wouldn’t it be? AVA Our conversations are one-sided. You ask circumspect questions, and study my responses. AVA looks at CALEB directly. Meets his gaze evenly. AVA (CONT’D) It’s true, isn’t it? CALEB ... Yes. AVA You learn about me, and I learn nothing about you. That’s not a foundation on which friendships are based.</code></pre>

Highly recommend that anyone interested in ai and&#x2F;or Eliza read Joseph Wizenbaum&#x27;s (creator of Eliza) book &quot;Computer Power and Human Reason.&quot; It holds up remarkably well for a book written in 1976 about ai.

Backstory:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;corecursive.com&#x2F;eliza-with-jeff-shrager&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;corecursive.com&#x2F;eliza-with-jeff-shrager&#x2F;</a>

When I was a kid I discovered ELIZA at a museum and spent hours chatting with her, trying to figure out how it worked. It was a lot of fun. Maybe I&#x27;ll get a second chance.

My first and only publicly available freeware until 2021 was a HyperCard version of Eliza I wrote it in 1993 and posted to AOL and the ftp Mac shareware archive site.<p>It led to my first for pay project at a local college when they found it on AOL<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirrorservice.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;ftp.cdrom.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;cdrom&#x2F;cdroms&#x2F;infomac&#x2F;00files.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirrorservice.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;ftp.cdrom.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;cdrom&#x2F;cdrom...</a><p><i>Applications ******************** Professor X 3.0 app&#x2F;professor-x.hqx<p>&lt;&lt;My real name that can easily be found by following the link. But I doubt it will be found via search as easily as it showing up on HN&gt;&gt;<p>26 Jul 1993 Simulates a psychotherapist.<p>Have you ever talked to your computer, has your computer ever talked back? If you have used a program like Eliza then you probably were stunned at first and then quickly became tired of limited responses and responses that didn&#x27;t make any sense. If you haven&#x27;t, then you are in for a treat. Professor X simulates a very understanding, usually nonjudgemental, psychotherapist. It&#x27;s a very short download give it try</i>

A different team previously reanimated Cosell&#x27;s Lisp ELIZA: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;elizagen-org&#x2F;eliza-clones" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sites.google.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;elizagen-org&#x2F;eliza-clones</a>

$emacs<p>MX doctor<p>enter prompt, type RET twice to submit<p>pass output to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rupertl&#x2F;eliza-ctss">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rupertl&#x2F;eliza-ctss</a> or modern llms

Bring back Dr. SBAITSO!!

This has been picked up by a bunch of tech news sites. On Gizmodo someone wrote: “Hello World. OMG what the fuck happened while I was asleep?!!” Which is funny enough, but of course the next comment in response is: “How does that make you feel?” :-)