Weizenbaum, Joseph

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

Page numbers are for draft copy at present; they will be replaced with correct numbers when final book is formatted. Chapter numbers are correct and will not change now.

Joseph Weizenbaum was an early researcher and theorist in AI and in particular created the chatbot ELIZA. Weizenbaum was a sceptic about the ultimate potential for computers to be truly intelligent.

Used on Chap. 1: page 7; Chap. 23: pages 554, 566

Also known as Joseph Weizenbaum