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Definition: Eliza
(1) (eLiza) Formally Project eLiza, eLiza was an umbrella term for a variety of self-management features from IBM that performed numerous capabilities without human intervention. eLiza was short for "eLizard," a highly adaptable animal.
(2) (ELIZA) Sometimes called the "first chatbot," ELIZA was developed at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum to simulate a conversation between a human and machine. Released in 1966, ELIZA used scripts written in a tree structure. See chatbot and SNARC.
The Doctor Script
(2) (ELIZA) Sometimes called the "first chatbot," ELIZA was developed at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum to simulate a conversation between a human and machine. Released in 1966, ELIZA used scripts written in a tree structure. See chatbot and SNARC.
Using pattern matching, this was an interaction between a human and the ELIZA Doctor Script.