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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/ralphbernardo on 2025-01-06 18:15:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about ELIZA, a 1960s chatbot created by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum that simulated a psychotherapist. It was so convincing that some users, including Weizenbaum’s secretary, became emotionally attached to it. In 2023, ELIZA even outperformed GPT-3.5 in a Turing test study.