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19661960s
Joseph Weizenbaum
Creator of the ELIZA program and later a prominent philosophical critic of AI.
Organizations
MITGeneral Electric
Major Achievements
- •Created ELIZA, a natural language processing program simulating conversational interaction.
- •Discovered the 'ELIZA effect'—humans anthropomorphizing simplistic algorithms.
- •Authored 'Computer Power and Human Reason' (1976), arguing strongly against AI taking over human judgment roles.
Key Papers
- ELIZA — A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine
Joseph Weizenbaum · Communications of the ACM · 1966