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

[William Sutton]

Parry:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARRY

According to my AI professor, some AI researchers decided to see if Eliza 
(psychoanalyst) could help Parry (paranoid schizophrenic).  The result was 
that the two programs, while they would appear to be semi-human to a 
human, made absolutely no sense in the context of talking to each other.

-- 
William Sutton


On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Craig Taylor wrote:

> Speaking of AI, ... Something you may also be interested in...
> 
> There was also a program that achieved a better degree of success in the
> Turing Test that mimicked an individual with a personality problem
> (psychotic, etc). Where most people could quickly tell Eliza was a fake,
> most shrinks had a more difficult time differentiating between the computer
> and the program (not sure if this says something about shrinks or the
> program.. ).
> 
> Google should turn it up - if not I can possibly find the name of the
> program and a book reference for you when I get home...
> 
> On 6/7/07, burnett at pobox.com <burnett at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> >
> > > thanks
> >
> > I recently read some discussion on eliza in Montfort's _Twisty Little
> > Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction_ (MIT Press, 2005).
> >
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/Twisty-Little-Passages-Approach-Interactive/dp/0262633183/
> >
> > badger at trilug
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