Parry Parries Again: Reanimating the Famous Paranoid Chatbot (In a Day) https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/blog/parry-parries-again # HackerNews # Tech
Researchers have successfully reanimated the 1972 PARRY chatbot, a program known for simulating paranoia, and had it converse with the original ELIZA chatbot. This feat was accomplished in a single day by leveraging an emulator for the PDP-10 computer system and a 1974 WAITS operating system image. The recreated conversation is a quasi-replication of a famous 1973 internet exchange between PARRY and ELIZA documented in RFC 439. AI
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