Joseph Weizenbaum on AI
3 quotes from Joseph Weizenbaum on the wall, 1966 to 1967, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Communications of the ACM, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 10, No. 8.
- 1967
The program maintains the illusion of understanding
Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT computer scientist and creator of ELIZA, wrote this follow-up paper on the DOCTOR script, published in August 1967.
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 10, No. 8Contextual Understanding by Computers
No human understands any other human
Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT computer scientist and author of ELIZA, discussing what machine understanding could mean in his paper Contextual Understanding by Computers, Communications of the ACM, August 1967.
Communications of the ACMContextual Understanding by Computers
- 1966
Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT computer scientist, opened his January 1966 paper in Communications of the ACM (vol. 9, no. 1) describing ELIZA, his conversation program running on MIT's MAC time-sharing system.
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Quotes by others that refer to Joseph Weizenbaum
- 2023
Designed to trick you, to make you think you're talking to someone who's not actually there
Colin Fraser, a data scientist at Meta, describing ChatGPT's conversational design, quoted by Ben Tarnoff in a July 2023 Guardian article on Joseph Weizenbaum, the MIT professor who created the first chatbot, Eliza.
- 1976
The 1960s technology of moralistic invective
Stanford AI researcher John McCarthy reviewed Joseph Weizenbaum's 1975 book Computer Power and Human Reason in the SIGART Newsletter in 1976, answering its moral critique of artificial intelligence research.
SIGART Newsletter; author's Stanford pageAn Unreasonable Book