Scientists have just resurrected “ELIZA,” the world’s first chatbot, from long-lost computer code — and it still works extremely well.
Using dusty printouts from MIT archives, these “software archaeologists” discovered defunct code that had been lost for 60 years and brought it back to life.
Huh, I never knew that the version of Eliza many of us have tried out was based on the original author’s academic paper and not the original source code.