Etymology

ELIZA effect

Today it means: The tendency to assume that computers behave analogously to human beings. Full definition →

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Coined by American social scientist and psychologist Sherry Turkle, named after ELIZA, a 1966 chatbot developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. The program was named after the character Eliza Doolittle in the play Pygmalion (1913).

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