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The Eliza Effect

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    skybrian
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    From the article: This article is from last year, but there are people on Twitter who say they are using GPT-3 for therapy.

    From the article:

    Throughout Joseph Weizenbaum’s life, he liked to tell this story about a computer program he’d created back in the 1960s as a professor at MIT. It was a simple chatbot named ELIZA that could interact with users in a typed conversation. As he enlisted people to try it out, Weizenbaum saw similar reactions again and again — people were entranced by the program. They would reveal very intimate details about their lives. It was as if they’d just been waiting for someone (or something) to ask.

    This article is from last year, but there are people on Twitter who say they are using GPT-3 for therapy.

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    1. rish
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      I like this site. Thanks for sharing. Bookmarked.

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