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

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

I remember that stupid sound blaster parrot too.... 

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Steve Hoffman
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:49 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: early computer program that played the role of
apsychologist

This goes back a LONG time and I doubt is what you are looking for, but
in the Windows 3.1 days we had a dos based program called Dr SBaitso (or
similar spelling) that came with our Sound Blaster program.  I don't
know if it was a therapist..but you essentially typed your issue and it
would "text to speech" it's response back to you (print out like an IM
conversation, and read it to you).
Typical Conversation (remember it not only displayed, but spoke the
response which made it ever so much more entertaining when someone
walked by the
office)

It: Hello, I'm Dr. SBaitso, computer psycho-therapist, how can I help
you today?
Me: You Suck!
It: Why do you feel this way?
Me: Because you Suck!
It: I understand, but where does this stem from?
Me: I think you know?
It: What do I know?

I would go on for about 5 minutes out of sheer boredom insulting it in
every way I could think of.  Sure the novelyt wore off quickly but what
better way to kill 15 minutes?

Ahhh, memory lane...

Steve

On 6/7/07, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> 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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