ELIZA effect
ELIZA effect proper noun: the tendency to assume that computers behave analogously to human beings.
Proper noun (1)
the ELIZA effect
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Eliza effect
the Eliza effect
- Alternative form of ELIZA effect.
- This interpretation of the Eliza effect recalls wider responses that people have to digital technologies, if not toward technology as a whole.2021, Simone Natale, Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 64
- The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said.2025 December 19, Kashmir Hill, quoting Sherry Turkle, “Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...
Forms of ELIZA effect
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Origin of ELIZA effect
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).
Questions about ELIZA effect
- What does ELIZA effect mean?
- ELIZA effect means the tendency to assume that computers behave analogously to human beings.
- What part of speech is ELIZA effect?
- ELIZA effect is a proper noun.
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