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Old 11th Feb 2021, 2:44 am   #1
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Default Lockdown blues & (vintage) automated therapy

In conjunction with conversations on another (very unrelated) forum, I was directed to ELIZA this evening - an automated Rogerian therapist from 1966.

https://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/eliza.html

As an experiment in programming for machine interaction in plain English it's rather interesting - I expect there will be people on here who know a good bit more about the background to all this than I do.

At least when this Rogerian doesn't help you sort your head out, it doesn't cost you £40+ an hour
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Old 11th Feb 2021, 11:29 am   #2
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ELIZA: now there's a blast from the past. I first met "her" back in the early 1970s.
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Old 11th Feb 2021, 12:56 pm   #3
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So artificial sanity predates artificial intelligence?

I've now got this image in my head of an early computer controlling a vast multi-track tape player to select between spoken phrases like "Vould you like to tell me about zat?" But the speech recognition to go with it couldn't have been done.

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Old 11th Feb 2021, 7:53 pm   #4
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The replay end of that could have been done with a mellotron!

Someone I know is involved in a project to save health service money by providing automated advice to people - especially those suffering from hallucinations - over a mobile phone. I am sceptical of this approach, and I take the sufferings of these patients rather seriously. When I tried to satirise his efforts by asking whether the automated phone service would whisper in one’s ear ‘do it - do it now’ he seemed unsure how to take it
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I remember typing in "Eliza" from a book (I think it was "101 BASIC computer games") and amusing myself with it for a while. I even extended it a bit with new "trigger" words. Of course at the time I was a teenager so the maturity level was not high
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