3 papers
cs.LG2025
A Small Math Model: Recasting Strategy Choice Theory in an LLM-Inspired Architecture
Roussel Rahman, Jeff Shrager
Strategy Choice Theory (SCT; Siegler and Shrager, 1984; Siegler, 2000) explains important aspects of children's arithmetic learning based upon principles including learning from de…
cs.AI2025
ELIZA Reanimated: The world's first chatbot restored on the world's first time sharing system
Rupert Lane, Anthony Hay, Arthur Schwarz +2
ELIZA, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the early 1960s, is usually considered the world's first chatbot. It was developed in MAD-SLIP on MIT's CTSS, the world's first time-s…
cs.AI2024
ELIZA Reinterpreted: The world's first chatbot was not intended as a chatbot at all
Jeff Shrager
ELIZA, often considered the world's first chatbot, was written by Joseph Weizenbaum in the early 1960s. Weizenbaum did not intend to invent the chatbot, but rather to build a platf…