AI Agents radically changing the world, analysts say

Eliza wants to know how you feel. Before we go any further, please know that Eliza, or ELIZA, wasn’t a human being, but an early conversational artificial intelligence agent developed in 1966 by the computer science Joseph Weizenbaum. Eliza the agent could act like a therapist by reflecting users’ statements, though it had no real understanding of language. When a user stated, “I feel sad today,” Eliza asked, “Why do you feel sad today?” We’ve come a long way since Eliza made those simple inquiries. To ...