Connecting with Elizabeth: Using Artificial Intelligence as a Data Collection Aid
Craig F. KolbAsk Afrika
Dr Peter MillicanUniversity of Oxford
INTRODUCING THE 1960s A.I. ROGERIAN PSYCHOTHERAPIST – ELIZA
One of the earliest attempts at creating a 'chatbot', a computer program which could converse with a human in 'natural language', was developed by a computer scientist, Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum. Even though a fairly simple program, it had a massive impact on the psychological community and popular imagination of the 1960s. Designed to mimic a Rogerian psychotherapist, many were impressed by the apparent intelligence of the program, called ELIZA, and...