Authentic eliza in the browser: https://anthay.github.io/eliza.html
(Port/rewrite I think. More details here https://github.com/anthay/ELIZA )
I am curious, was there any improvement of ELIZA type chatbots, before the advent of LLMs. What was the state of the art of conventional chatbot tech. Perhaps some IRC chatbots were more advanced?
For Emacs users, see also:
M-x doctor
;;; Commentary:
;; The single entry point `doctor', simulates a Rogerian analyst using
;; phrase-production techniques similar to the classic ELIZA demonstration
;; of pseudo-AI.
"Switch to *doctor* buffer and start giving psychotherapy."
[2] https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/p...
Discussed in January: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42746506>
Once, way back when, I ported eliza to $lang and hooked it up to my AIM account. All well and good till the boss interacted with it for a couple of minutes before twigging on.
Obligatory: the early 2000s web site 'aoliza' which turned vanilla Eliza loose on AOL Instant Messenger, with predictably hilarious results demonstrating that the Turing Test was beaten decades ago[1].
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030812213928/http://fury.com/a...
you can use elizallm.com (it also offers the openai api just in case you need that).
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I had an ELIZA-like "chatbot" written in BASIC on the laptop I carried in high school (1991-1995). I added logging, let classmates interact with it, and then read the logs. The extent to which people treated the program as though it had agency was kind of horrifying. I can only imagine what's happening with LLMs today. It scares the willies out of me.
re: my ELIZA-like logs - I was at least somewhat ethical, insofar as I didn't share the logs with others, nor did I ever tell anybody that they had been logged or acted upon what I read in the logs. Still, I was pretty shitty to the people who interacted with my computer. The extent to which current "AI" companies won't be shitty to users is, I assume, much less than I was back then.