Eliza Chatbot

Demo

Try it out: Chat with ELIZA

Honoring Joseph Weizenbaum

This application aims to honor the work of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot, ELIZA, in the 1960s at MIT, and significantly contributed to the discipline of Artificial Intelligence.

Introduction to ELIZA

ELIZA was designed to mimic a Rogerian psychotherapist, and although it is based on a fairly short and simple script, it performed remarkably well and provided valuable insights into the nature of human-computer conversational interfaces. To recognize Weizenbaum’s work, I thought that ELIZA deserves a place here, alongside other plugins.

Technical Details

This plugin functions offline and maintains user privacy by not collecting any data. It’s based on the original ‘ELIZA’ script, as publish…