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ELIZA effect en · PROPN

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).

Meanings

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

Forms

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Hypernyms

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wikipedia: Joseph Weizenbaum · wikipedia: ELIZA · wikipedia: Eliza Doolittle · wikipedia: Pygmalion (play)