(urth) 5HC : Chinese boxes or tea chests?

[Maru Dubshinki]

The two of you are probably thinking of a) Parry; an improved Eliza
which was a lot more effective and b) some experiments where
unsuspecting students talked to a program similar to Eliza via a
terminal and never suspected anything (that is, they were not told to
apply all their critical spirit to it, like they would in a real
Turing test.).

~Maru
Microsoft delenda est.

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:43:20 -0800, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I seem to recall a program which regularly fooled
> > people into thinking it was a client-centred
> > psychotherapist.
> 
> That would be "Eliza." It didn't really fool very many
> people or for very long.
> 
> --Dan'l
> 
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