Eliza Effect Gaming Humanity
Can you still think for yourself? Or do you depend on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to direct your train of thought?
Here’s an inquiry into the Eliza Effect. Never heard of it? A psychotherapist by the name of Joseph Weizenbaum coined the term back in 1966. He wanted to describe how people can apply human traits and characteristics to AI or other comparable instances of computer legerdemain. Eliza was not just AI, but an AI chatbot setting out to reach the lonely and the impressionable.
A similar theme motivated the 2013 Hollywood movie Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a lonely man who becomes fixated on a computer operating system, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Spike Jonze both wrote and directed the picture. Here, Truthstream Media turns to Her as an introduction to the larger — and stranger — world of artificial intelligence.
