ELIZA's SPACKS script: the chatbot's earliest poetry-critic role unearthed
begusgasper · x · 2026-11-14
Researcher Nina Begus shares early chatbot history: ELIZA's SPACKS script, one of its first educational uses, acted as a poetry critic and interpreting bot. The name and the poem it analyzed came from poet Barry Spacks, who in turn wrote "To a Computer Writing Verses." More ELIZA lore appears in her Afterword to the forthcoming book My Electronic Psychiatrist by David Avidan.
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