[TriLUG] OT: early computer program that played the role of a psychologist

[Andrew Perrin]

That would be Eliza:

http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html

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On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> I'm writing something that talks about the Turing test for
> human mimicry. I remember an early computer program that ran
> on a teletype/console that played the role of a
> psychologist. It was very simple minded but fooled many
> people, who were upset when it was disconnected. I thought
> the computer program's name was LISA.
>
> Looking with google for "psychology counselling computer
> program turing test" doesn't find anything.
>
> Anyone know the computer program I'm talking about?
>
> Joe
>
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