sep 1, 1978 - ELIZA, Early AI chatbot (Joseph Weizenbaum - MIT)

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Joseph Weizenbaum at the MIT AI Lab develops ELIZA, an early natural language processing computer program that imitates a Rogerian psychotherapist. ELIZA uses pattern matching and substitution to process user input and produce a response, serving as an early example of a chatbot.

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