eliza effect
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The tendency to assume that computers behave analogously to human beings.
name
Alternative form of ELIZA effect.
Example Sentences
- "This interpretation of the Eliza effect recalls wider responses that people have to digital technologies, if not toward technology as a whole."
- "The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said."
Etymology
Coined by American social scientist and psychologist Sherry Turkle, named after ELIZA, a 1966 chatbot developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. The program was named after the character Eliza Doolittle in the play Pygmalion (1913).
Inflected Forms
the ELIZA effect (canonical)