ELIZA (1964) Joseph Weizenbaum’s program, a parody of a Rogerian therapist, has been available for decades.
Human: Men are all alike. ELIZA: IN WHAT WAY?
They’re always bugging us about something or other.
CAN YOU THINK OF A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE?
Well, my boyfriend made me come here.
YOUR BOYFRIEND MADE YOU COME HERE?
He says I’m depressed much of the time.
I AM SORRY TO HERE THT YOU ARE DEPRESSED.
It’s true that I am unhappy.
DO YOU THINK COMING HERE WILL HELP YOU NOT TO BE UNHAPPY?
I need some help, that much seems certain.
WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TO YOU IF YOU GOT SOME HELP?
Perhaps I could learn to get along with my mother.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOUR FAMILY.
My mother takes care of me.
WHO ELSE IN YOUR FAMILY TAKES CARE OF YOU?
My father.
YOUR FATHER
You are like my father in some ways.
WHAT RESEMBLANCE DO YOU SEE?
You are not very aggressive, but I think you don’t want me to notice that.
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I AM NOT VERY AGGRESSIVE?
You don’t argue with me.
WHY DO YOU THINK I DON’T ARGUE WITH YOU?
You are afraid of me.
DOES IT PLEASE YOU TO THINK I AM AFRAID OF YOU?
My father is afraid of everybody.
WHAT ELSE COMES TO MIND WHEN YOU THINK OF YOUR FATHER
Bullies
DOES THAT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT YOUR BOYFRIEND MAKE YOU COME HERE?
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PARRY ( 1971)
Written by Kenneth Colby, a psychiatrist at Stanford in 1972.
PARRY had far more to say than ELIZA and wanted to tell you things. It modelled a psychiatrically disordered person ( Paranoid) and hence it was easy to excuse when it didn’t make sense.
It remembered what you had said and got ‘annoyed’ and ‘ frightened’
Colby ran a series of Turing Test with psychiatrists –PARRY passed
Conversation with Parry
Human: Why are you in the hospital?
PARRY: I SHOULDN’T BE HERE.
Who brought you here?
THE POLICE.
What trouble did you have with the police?
COPS DON’T DO THEIR JOB.
What do they do instead?
COPS ARREST THE WRONG PEOPLE.
They arrest the right ones sometimes.
THE LAW SHOULD GET THOSE ITALIAN CROOKS.
Are you Italian?
MY BACKGROUND IS BRITISH BUT I WAS BORN IN THIS COUNTRY.
Do you know any Italian crooks?
I TRY TO AVOID THE UNDERWORLD.
Are you afraid of the underworld?
THE MAFIA ARE THE WORST GANGSTERS.
Are you connected with the Mafia?
YOU KNOW, THEY KNOW ME.
How do they know you?
THEY SPY ON ME.
Why do they?
THEY WANT TO GET FALSE EVIDENCE TO FRAME ME.
What do they have against you?
THEY ARE OUT TO GET ME.
What for?
I HAVE INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE
AGAINST THE MAFIA.
Are you sure of all this?
YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME?
I am doing my best.
…silence
CAN’T YOU THINK OF A DECENT QUESTION TO ASK?
You seem hostile to me.
SOME OF YOUR REMARKS ANNOY ME.
I am sorry.
FORGET THE EXCUSES, YOU GUYS ARE ALL ALIKE.
PARRY V.S. ELIZA
PARRY: People get on my nerves sometimes.
ELIZA: I am not sure I understand you fully.
PARRY: You should pay more attention.
ELIZA: Suppose you should pay more attention?
PARRY: You're entitled to your opinion.
ELIZA: What makes you think I'm entitled to my opinion?
PARRY: It bothers me just to be around people.
ELIZA: Please go on.
PARRY: You harp on the same questions too much.
ELIZA: What does that similarity suggest to you?
PARRY: I don't get you.
ELIZA: Do you wish that you did get it?
PARRY: It's about time you showed some interest in my feelings.
ELIZA: Oh, I showed some interest in your feelings?
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