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By Joseph Weizenbaum
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Who is Weizenbaum? Meet with ELIZA Effects on society The book What Weizenbaum thinks? Hear from his own voice Discussion
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Joseph Weizenbaum
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ELIZA Designed in 1966 Named after Eliza Doolittle, a character in George Bernard Shaw's play A program that can be incrementally improved by its users
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ELIZA
A program operating within the time-sharing system at MIT conversation between man and computer acts as a Rogerian therapist let's try ELIZA
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ELIZA's effects on society contd. 3. A general solution to the problem of computer understanding of natural language?
a) a line dividing human and machine intelligence b) computers became the extensions of human body c) people must develop a sense of understanding regarding how machines work
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Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation Responses to ELIZA motivated Weisenbaum to write his book Computer
In that book he explains the limits of computers Computers will always lack human qualities such as compassion and wisdom.
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Discussion
Do you think
a computer program may take place of the real doctors? people are creating emotional ties with computers? whether or not human thought is entirely computable? one day machines create their own intelligence and take over the world? should we really know the design principles behind every machine we are using in our daily life? people became addictive to the technology? question scientific facts?
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Thanks!
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