ELIZA was one of the first chatbots, a mock-therapists programmed in the 1960s to show that even superficial responses could draw people in. AZILE was was written in 1992 as her evil twin. (AZILE is ELIZA backward.) Not long after AZILE’s introduction, I pit the two against each other, copying-and-pasitng their responses from one program to the other on my computer. I’ve retained the coversation for posterity.
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