Past Yonder

A human's thoughts on AI


ChatBots

  • ELIZA, the original chatbot

    Before ChatGPT, Gemini, and even Siri, there was ELIZA, the original chatbot. Created in 1966, ELIZA is one of the earliest examples of a natural language processing program, or what we now call chatbots. While modern chatbots aim to converse on virtually any topic, ELIZA had a much narrower focus. She was designed to simulate… Continue reading