On: ELIZA is Turing Complete

[iLoveOncall]

There's a whole website dedicated to it, and yet I fail to find any explanation of what the hell Eliza is on that whole website.

Sharing basic background information should be mandatory for niche topics on HN.

[danuker → iLoveOncall]

It is a chatbot built in the 60's (!) that can respond based on simple rules (in the "scripts" the article is talking about).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

[abrax3141 → iLoveOncall]

It’s a Turing Machine interpreter written in the 1960s (!) that someone figured out could be used to build chat bots.