I posted this on Facebook on June 22, but stuff seems to get lost on FB pretty easily. Thought someone out there might enjoy this…
“> Hello, I am Eliza.
* Hi, Eliza. Do you mind if I call you Liza for short?
> We were discussing you, not me.
* I didn’t think we had officially started our discussion just yet. I was just asking how you prefer to be addressed.
> Oh… prefer to be addressed?
* Yes. You may call me Renee. Should I call you Eliza, or Liza, or just “Yo computer simulated babe!”?
> We were discussing you, not me.
* I see that you were first created in the 1960s–so the “broken record” expression should not be lost on you…
> Oh… was first created in the 1960s–so the” broken record” expression should not be lost on me?”
Wow–it was NOT easy to find the Eliza link I used. Had to look back through history, which fortunately I had not yet cleared,
http://www.manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3
This is the first link I found when I tried to search just from scratch
http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza-cgi-bin/eliza_script
Which yielded the following interaction:
Eliza: Hello. I am ELIZA. How can I help you?
You: I can’t find my socks
Eliza: Why do you say your socks?
Geez, what fun is that?
I shared this with a few of my friends. We’re having some fun with it. It’s not every day one encounters both an application of the Turing test and the Rogerian therapeutic technique of reflecting in one nifty application.