alt Hacker NewsWritten by Peter Deutsch, then a then-high school student on a tiny 4K (admittedly, 4K 18-bit words) machine. Amazingly usable - and lives on in the Python REPL concept.
Our PiDP-1 simulator on github lets you try it out on any Linux machine (not just a Raspberry PI): https://github.com/obsolescence/pidp1
Posting this in the hope that someone will feel triggered to backport Eliza, it was done in the 1960s but it's been lost :-)
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> Posting this in the hope that someone will feel triggered to backport Eliza, it was done in the 1960s but it's been lost :-)
When in doubt, there is always the option to implement Eliza in a Forth[0] embedded within a dish washing machine's firmware. It could converse about one's thoughts regarding pre-soak techniques. :-)
>Posting this in the hope that someone will feel triggered to backport Eliza, it was done in the 1960s but it's been lost :-)
you can run eliza in emacs, just " M-X doctor " enter
> Posting this in the hope that someone will feel triggered to backport Eliza, it was done in the 1960s but it's been lost :-)
Some of us who remember actually playing with Eliza are absolutely amused by all the hype around LLMs (because it's so similar to the hype heard from "normies" who saw Eliza and thought we were "just around the corner from real AI"; The same folk who thought we'd all have a flying car in every garage by now, LOL!). Still really impressed by what LLMs actually can do though, despite them being not much closer to true "thinking machines". ;)