Find the Right Balance Between Humans and Bots
in the 1960s, Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT decided to have a little fun. To demonstrate the artificiality of computers—how soulless and very unlike humans they were—Weizenbaum created a little program called Eliza, which he designed to behave like a bored psychotherapist. When a user asked Eliza a question, it would spit back some programmatic response. Weizenbaum hoped to show how impossible it was for computers
