'ELIZA,' the world's 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code (www.livescience.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org on 20 Jan 17:42
https://lemmy.world/post/24506414

Scientists have just resurrected “ELIZA,” the world’s first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works extremely well.

Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these “software archaeologists” discovered defunct code that had been lost for 60 years and brought it back to life.

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