Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...
On a crisp December day in 2024, deep inside a virtual emulation of a 1960s mainframe, an antiquated line blinked back to life: HOW DO YOU DO. PLEASE TELL ME YOUR PROBLEM. This was ELIZA herself — not ...
When middle schoolers chatted with ELIZA, a 1960s chatbot, they uncovered how AI really works (and doesn’t). Along the way, ...
Results of three experiments indicate that sycophantic AI chatbots inflate people’s perceptions that they are “better than ...