ELIZA Bot

Joseph Weizenbaum, a German American computer scientist at MIT, developed ELIZA between 1964 and 1966. It is widely described as the first chatbot, one of the first programs that let a person hold a conversation with a computer in everyday language. The primary aim behind creating ELIZA was to explore the potential for communication between humans and machines, and in Weizenbaum's own description it made certain kinds of natural language conversation between man and computer possible. He described the program in ELIZA: A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication Between…