Joseph Weizenbaum Dead
Wrote ELIZA (1966) — the chatbot whose users' trust horrified him into writing Computer Power and Human Reason.
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Wrote ELIZA (1966) — the first chatbot, a Rogerian therapist script — and then spent the rest of his career arguing AI shouldn't exist.\n\n'Computer Power and Human Reason' (1976) is the field's founding critique; the man who made the first chatbot became its fiercest critic.