The historical chatbot, ELIZA, has had its source code unearthed from the MIT archives. The therapist personality was just one of its personas, including one that could make passable small talk, and one that served as a tutor. ELIZA shows how rudimentary pattern matching with contextual memory can still generate distinct machine “personalities” and shape our feelings about chatbots. https://spectrum.ieee.org/eliza-chatbot-source-code?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline