ELIZA effect

English

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Etymology

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).

Proper noun

the ELIZA effect

  1. The tendency to assume that computers behave analogously to human beings.

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