Playing with the good old Eliza ...
Back to 1966 ...
... Eliza (the "fake" Rogerian psychoanalyst), and Parry afterwards (the "fake" parnoid schizophrenic) - if curious see When Parry Met Eliza: A Ridiculous Chatbot Conversation From 1972 reported in The Atlantic, June 9, 2014 - started one of the most interesting lines of research in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
A line of research aiming at rapid advances in the Natural Language Processing field (NLP), and leading to today's Large Language Models (LLM) enabled by Neural Networks - an even older AI technique, although researchers stayed away for a very long time from this data- and energy-consuming black box approach to knowledge representation.
A line of research focussing on understanding and reproducing language, and therefore human expression, and interaction. One also focussing on designing algorithms which can best "mimick" and "fool" people ...
Interesting Links & Videos
Back in 2018 ... when Google produced a demo of their Duplex-based, impressively "human" voice-enabled chatbot ...
A deep technological breakthrough in Conversational AI, and the rise of Generative AI
Multi-modal, with Voice and Visions: Another brick in the wall ...
