The Accidental AI: How ELIZA's Lisp Adaptation Derailed Its Original Research Intent | HackerNoon
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"Weizenbaum, of course, had to provide an example - the DOCTOR script - to demonstrate the platform... but, he had no illusion that it was actually intelligent, nor even very easily interpreted as intelligent."
"Our thesis is that Joseph Weizenbaum, afraid of people misinterpreting computers and AI, developed ELIZA not as an AI, but as a platform to support research about people's interpretive process, perhaps more specifically their interaction with AIs."
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