{"id":31133,"date":"2026-07-10T09:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/botnation.ai\/eliza-chatbot\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:39:25","slug":"eliza-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/botnation.ai\/en\/eliza-chatbot\/","title":{"rendered":"ELIZA Chatbot: History, How It Works and a Live Demo (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ELIZA is the first chatbot in history.<\/strong> Built between 1964 and 1966 by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT, the program imitates a psychotherapist by turning your own sentences back into questions. It understands nothing: it spots keywords and returns the ball. Yet the earliest users grew attached to it, to the point of confiding in it. That is the ELIZA effect<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In this guide: its history, exactly how it works, an interactive demo so you can talk to it<\/strong>, and what separates this pioneer from today\u2019s AI chatbots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Long before ChatGPT, Gemini or the conversational agent on your bank\u2019s website, a machine convinced human beings that it was listening to them. It was called ELIZA, it fit into a handful of grammar rules, and it kicked off the whole chatbot story without meaning to. Sixty years later, it is still the best lesson in humility, and in clear thinking, about the way we relate to machines that talk.<\/p>\n

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