Scientists have just resurrected “ELIZA,” the world’s first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works extremely well.
Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these “software archaeologists” discovered defunct code that had been lost for 60 years and brought it back to life.
Write enough IF-THEN lines of code you can simulate anything. Look at Undertale and how it used thousands of conditionals. You know what’s more impressive than ELIZA’s code? Infocom’s text parser.
Stan Lee is alive and well apparently.
Eliza or its faithful clone comes with every Emacs. To conslult your doctor type M-x doctor
Huh, I never knew that the version of Eliza many of us have tried out was based on the original author’s academic paper and not the original source code.
