Vintage AI: When Machines First Pretended to Think
Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
The Internet Archive's new Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection resurrects 1970s–1990s software that simulated thinking machines, from ELIZA chatbots to games like Little Computer People and The Hobbit. These emulated programs show how early home computers played with the illusion of life, offering a nostalgic look at AI before it got awkward.
These humble-by-comparison programs make obvious what is not always expressed – that a number of simple rules, presented quickly and without intervention, can give incredibly powerful illusions of autonomy and intelligence, as long as you don’t look so closely.
- oidar
My favorite old AI named Tik-Tok - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_(novel)
>Tik-Tok finds that he can do as he pleases, and he secretly commits various hideous crimes for his amusement. After manipulating both robots and humans to cause chaos and bloodshed, Tik-Tok becomes wealthy (partly through health care privatization) and is finally elected Vice President of the United States.
- jonbaer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Markup...
- ripe
Pretty good. Regarding Eliza, a version comes with Emacs, too. It's the "doctor" application. (The original Eliza was written as a generic engine running a pattern-matching "script").
A quibble: the creator of Eliza was Joseph Weizenbaum, not "Wizenbaum".