Quoting Joseph Weizenbaum

What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people. — Joseph Weizenbaum

What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.

— Joseph Weizenbaum (https://archive.org/details/computerpowerhum0000weiz_v0i3?q=realized), creator of ELIZA, in 1976 (via (https://www.tiktok.com/@professorcasey/video/7614890527711825183))

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