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ELIZA effect
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English
Alternative forms
en ELIZA Effect Eliza effect
Etymology
en Q52919, named after ELIZA, a 1966 chatbot developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. The program was named after the character Eliza Doolittle in the play Pygmalion (play) Pygmalion (1913).
Proper noun
ELIZA effect 1
The tendency to assume that computers behave analogously to human beings.
Hypernyms
en anthropomorphization
en eponyms terms derived from fiction