Joseph Weizenbaum developed ELIZA at MIT, a program that simulated a Rogerian psychotherapist by using simple pattern-matching scripts to rephrase user inputs as questions, exposing the “ELIZA Effect” where humans mistakenly attribute deep empathy to empty strings of code.
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