[the_af]

Wasn't SBAITSO pretty much the same idea as Eliza, only using speech synthesis with a Soundblaster?

[acidburnNSA]

Yes. I'm surprised to hear Eliza passed a turing test. SBAITSO was fun but pretty clearly not a human.

[NavinF]

Eliza never passed a turing test. Nobody tried to test Eliza because they knew what the result would be

[acidburnNSA]

I'm responding to the quote in TFA:

> One of the first computer programs that successfully passed the Turing test was Eliza.

I haven't studied the history of it.

[the_af]

Mentioned in arstechnica to my surprise, but do note the paper wasn't peer reviewed and they mention flaws in the methodology.

I cannot believe anyone passingly familiar with ELIZA would be fooled by it.