I'M SORRY TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE VERY DEPRESSED

 

E.L.I.Z.A

I don't believe in Magick

I don't believe in I-Ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in Tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in Mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in Yoga
I don't believe in Kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles --

I just Believe in Me

Yoko & Me

That's Reality.

E.L.I.Z.A  is an early 

natural language processing computer program 

created from 1964 to 1966 

at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 

by Joseph Weizenbaum.

Created to demonstrate 

The Superficiality of Communication 

between Humans and Machines, 

E.L.I.Z.A simulated Conversation 

by using a “pattern matching” 

and substitution methodology that gave users an 

Illusion of Understanding 

on the part of The Program, 

but had no built in framework 

for contextualising events.

Directives on How to Interact 

were provided by “scripts”, 

written originally in MAD-Slip, 

which allowed E.L.I.Z.A 

to process user inputs and engage 

in discourse following 

The Rules and Directions 

of The Script. 

The most famous script, 

DOCTOR, simulated 

A Rogerian Psychotherapist 

(in particular, Carl Rogers, who was well-known for simply parroting back at patients what they had just said), 

and used Rules, dictated in The Script, 

to respond with non-directional questions to user inputs. 

As such, E.L.I.Z.A was one of the first chatterbots 

and one of the first programs capable of 

attempting The Turing Test.

" Rosenbaum was astonished — 

He discovered that EVERYONE 

that tried E.L.I.Z.A 

became engrossed.

They would sit for HOURS, 

telling The Machine about 

their Inner Feelings, 

and INCREDIBLY intimate details 

of Their Lives....

They ALSO Liked it, 

because it was free of any kind of 

'Patronising Elitism' — 

One person said, "After all, 

The Computer Doesn't Burn-out, 

Look Down on You, 

or Try to Have Sex with You." 

[ 'til you ask it to. ] 

What E.L.I.Z.A showed, 

was that in An Age of Individualism, 

what made people feel SECURE 

was having THEMSELVES 

reflected back to them — 

just like in a Mirror.

Artificial Intelligence changed direction, 

and started to create 

New Systems that did just that, 

but on a GIANT scale — 

They were called 

'Intelligent Agents'.

They worked by monitoring individuals, 

gathering vast amounts of data 

about their past behaviour — 

and then looked for patterns and correlations, 

from which they could predict 

What They Would WANT 

in The Future. 

It was A System That 

Ordered The World in 

A Way That was 

Centred Around YOU...... 

And in An Age of Anxious Individualism, 

Frightened of The Future — 

That was REASSURING. 

Just like  E.L.I.Z.A — 

A Safe Bubble [ SafeSpace ], 

that protected you from 

the complexities of 

The World outside.