Joseph Weizenbaum
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German-American computer scientist (1923-2008)
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Stanford CS547 HCI Seminar | Winter 2026 | What's Up with AI?
Stanford Online
Author of Eliza and critic of AI; referenced for historical context on AI's limits.
Rodney Brooks: Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #217
Lex Fridman
Computer scientist who created ELIZA, an early natural language processing program, and was surprised by the human desire to converse with it.
Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment | Lex Fridman Podcast #40
Lex Fridman
A computer scientist at MIT who developed the ELIZA program and later became concerned about the ethical implications of artificial intelligence.
Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse
Predictive History
The creator of Eliza, an early chatbot from 1966. He developed Eliza to demonstrate how easily people could be fooled into believing AI could think for itself.