Re: Looking for an old A2 program

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Quadrajet1 <quadrajet1@aol.com> wrote:
> << Val Golding wrote:
>> "Eliza" came long before the Mac was a gleam in Woz's eye. I had a
>> copy of Eliza in early 1978.

> My, my. Nothing like showing the whole world how ignorant you are.

He is, nevertheless, essentially correct:

http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/2000-2001-wt1/www/k_munro/historyAI.htm
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ELIZA 

In 1963 Joseph Weizenbaum joined MIT and began work on a computer program
that would interact with human beings in natural language to give the
appearance of artificial intelligence.  Weizenbaum called this program
ELIZA, and made it act like--horror of horrors--a Rogerian psychoanalyst.

Rogerian psychoanalysts tend to repeat, or "reflect," a client's words
back to her.  ELIZA paraphrases the key words and statements that a human
being enters in "conversation" with it, and asks general questions about
the user's state of mind.  <Click here to see how annoying this can be.>

While ELIZA is clearly not truly intelligent, it nevertheless has passed
the Turing Test.
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I'm not sure if the version that ran on the Apple II was the "full"
version or a limited subset.

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