Weizenbaum: Computer scientist who created world’s first chatbot in the 1960s spent his whole life warning that AI should never replace humans, and the reason will shock you
Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people” Joseph Weizenbaum set out to prove that computers could imitate conversation. Instead, his experiment convinced him that people could become emotionally attached to machines far more easily than he had imagined. That discovery changed the course of…
