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

David McDowell turnpike420 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 13:05:46 EDT 2007


ya b/c this is Lisa:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa  :)  I grew up with one.

David


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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