$ELIZA1966

connecting to the 7094…or just use your keyboard


      

      

        
Found in Weizenbaum's papers at MIT in 2021. Open source under CC0.

        read the source
      

    

  


  

    
how she thinks

    
ELIZA understands nothing. She looks for the highest-ranked keyword in your sentence, matches the sentence against one of that keyword's patterns, and fills a template with your own words.

    

    
Trace from the JavaScript port of the 1966 algorithm, reading the original DOCTOR script.

  


  

    
sixty years, one script

    

      
      
    
        
  1. 1964–66
    Joseph Weizenbaum writes ELIZA at MIT, in MAD-SLIP, for the IBM 7094 time-sharing system CTSS.
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  2. 1966
    Named after Eliza Doolittle, the flower seller in Shaw's Pygmalion who is taught to talk like a lady.
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  3. 2021
    The original source printout turns up among Weizenbaum's papers in the MIT archives.
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  4. 2025
    Running again on an emulated IBM 7094, under a reconstructed CTSS.
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  5. today
    On Solana as $ELIZA1966, and still asking how that makes you feel.
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    Stippled portrait of ELIZA: a 1960s bob with a hairband and a flower clip, black turtleneck.
    

      
$ELIZA1966

      
on Solana

      

        CA: not live yet
        
      

      

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