To combat addiction and mental illness, people are talking to machines

One of the world’s first chatbots was a therapist. Built in 1964 by MIT researcher Jerome Weizenbaum, the program, called ELIZA, was designed to mimic techniques from Rogerian psychotherapy where the therapist prompts the patient to examine their own thoughts and feelings.

from Pocket https://www.fastcompany.com/90299135/mental-health-crisis-robots-chatbots-listeners
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