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Eliza is a funny phenomeon. Originally it was ment by its creators to demonstrate that psychoanalysis is crap, and a simple application can do as well as a "well-trained" psychologist.
Interesting was the reaction of some people, who told they felt themselves understood by that application, and it actually helped them... So at last it was actually a case in point for psychotherapy. In the way, it actually helps somewant just "listens" and if its a computer program, that asks for futher input while only marginally understanding what you write...
BTW.: whatever this guy is doing, what really gets me off in this news is the word "patentet", so what exactly did he pantent? Artifical Intelligence? Or what. Hardly gets explained...
Last edited by axel77; 04-16-2008 at 03:59 PM.
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