Professor Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot he named ELIZA that conversed with users the way a psychotherapist might Gary Smith  I recently read an article (“Computers and the Nature of Man:  A Historian’s Perspective on Controversies about Artificial Intelligence”) by Judy Grabiner, a celebrated mathematician and historian of mathematics and I learned two things that I want to share.  The first concerns the Eliza effect, our inclination to attribute human-like intelligence and emotions to computers. In the 1960s, MIT computer science professor Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot he named ELIZA that conversed with users the way a psychotherapist might; for … Continue reading Computer Intelligence Versus Human Intelligence