Researchers have successfully revived "ELIZA," the world's first chatbot, utilizing original computer code that had been forgotten for nearly 60 years. Found in dusty printouts within the MIT archives ...

Little is still known about the relationship between humans, therapy, and AI chatbots, yet these tools are being used by some ...

Joseph Weizenbaum, whose famed conversational computer program, Eliza, foreshadowed the potential of artificial intelligence, but who grew skeptical about the potential for technology to improve the ...

In 1966, computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum built a primitive computer program he named ELIZA. Almost immediately, he regretted his creation. Developed to mimic simple psychotherapy exchanges, ELIZA ...

ChatGPT's new text-to-voice feature has one OpenAI's head of safety systems feeling "heard & warm" while other experiments with AI therapy have been a disaster. Reading time 3 minutes Designing a ...

Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine was fired in 2022 after he claimed an AI chatbot the company was testing internally was sentient. Since then, more and more people have become convinced that AI ...