The Genealogy of Eliza: mapping six decades of chatbot history from ELIZA to LLMs
abrax3141 · hn · 2026-10-13
elizagen.org maintains "The Genealogy of Eliza," a comprehensive family tree tracing chatbot evolution from Weizenbaum's 1966 ELIZA through its many descendants and branches — a valuable historical resource for understanding the path from pattern-matching prototypes to today's LLM chatbots, currently discussed on Hacker News.
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