This blog post explores applying the original ELIZA chatbot, a pioneering natural language processing program, in a way similar to modern large language models (LLMs) by using it to carry on an educational conversation about George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'.
An interdisciplinary research project exploring the history and ideas behind the influential ELIZA chatbot, created in the 1960s. The project aims to contextualize ELIZA, analyze its code, and examine its cultural impact on human-computer interaction.
This paper explores the history of ELIZA, the world's first chatbot, and how it was actually intended as a platform for research into human-machine interaction and interpretation, not as a chatbot.