[october8140]

> In computer science, the ELIZA effect is a tendency to project human traits — such as experience, semantic comprehension or empathy — onto rudimentary computer programs having a textual interface. ELIZA was a symbolic AI chatbot developed in 1966 by Joseph Weizenbaum that imitated a psychotherapist. Many early users were convinced of ELIZA's intelligence and understanding, despite its basic text-processing approach and the explanations of its limitations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

[homefree]

I feel like we need another effect for people on hacker news that consistently do the opposite - take obvious intelligence and pretend it's equivalent to Eliza.

[globular-toast]

Already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

[tired-turtle]

Does this effect refer to how HN commenters respond to one another in the comments?

[michaelcampbell]

See also: "ai;dr"