Computer scientist who created world's first chatbot in the 1960s spent his whole life warning that AI should never replace humans, and the reason will shock you
- Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people”Joseph Weizenbaum set out to prove that computers could imitate conversation.
- Instead, his experiment convinced him that people could become emotionally attached to machines far more easily than he had imagined.
- That discovery changed the course of his career.
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- Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people”Joseph Weizenbaum set out to prove that computers could imitate conversation.
- Instead, his experiment convinced him that people could become emotionally attached to machines far more easily than he had imagined.
- That discovery changed the course of his career.
Sources: Times of India