Weizenbaum was shocked with users' reaction to ELIZA. He found it shocking that users opened their hearts to ELIZA, revealed secrets/personal problems with her(or should I say it), thought it was a real therapist and that it really understood them and believed that it could help. Upon informing his secretary that he had logs of all the conversations, she reacted with outrage at the invasion of her privacy.
Weizenbaum perceived his own program as a threat.His first reaction was to shut down the ELIZA program. His second reaction was to write a book about the whole experience tilted "Computer Power and Human Reason". Two chapters of the book are an attack on artificial intelligence, on ELIZA and on computer science research in general while the rest of the book explains how a computer works. Weizenbaum later became one of the leading critics of artificial intelligence. Plug & Pray is a 2010 documentary film about the problems and ethics of artificial intelligence and robotics. The main protagonists are Joseph Weizenbaum and Raymond Kurzweil. Weizenbaum watched helplessly as technology was entrusted with decision-making and was extensively employed by the military. Interviewed just prior to his death, he states: “War might not exist now if there wasn’t the capacity to wage it remotely.” The film delves into a world where computer technology, robotics, biology, neuroscience, and developmental psychology merge.
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