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by 1vuio0pswjnm7
298 days ago
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"Indeed, as long ago as the 1960s, that phenomenon was noticed by Joseph Weizenbaum, the designer of the pioneering chatbot ELIZA, which replicated the responses of a psychotherapist so convincingly that even test subjects who knew they were conversing with a machine thought it displayed emotions and empathy. "What I had not realized," Weizenbaum wrote in 1976, "is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." Weizenbaum warned that the "reckless anthropomorphization of the computer" - that is, treating it as some sort of thinking companion - produced a "simpleminded view of intelligence."" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-we... Weizenbaum's 1976 book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875958 HN commenter rates this "greatest tech book of all-time": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36592209 |
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