Sixty years before ChatGPT, a chatbot called ELIZA was already making people pour their secrets into a computer — and its creator considered that a catastrophe, not a success

Last week, while preparing a presentation for my PhD studies on AI-human connections and human dependence on technology, I fell down a research rabbit hole that caught me completely off guard. Everyone who has had this conversation in the past few years has started it at the same place: ChatGPT, released in late 2022. The [...] The post Sixty years before ChatGPT, a chatbot called ELIZA was already making people pour their secrets into a computer — and its creator considered that a catastrophe,