ELIZA!

When I first encounter Eliza it was a really cool and fun experience because it was something I never heard or seen before. Eliza is supposed to be a therapist in a computer, that is awkward in the sense that maybe it can actually give a person advice. Going to the website provide by our computer programming teacher, I test the theory I created in my mind that just maybe it can response close to a human being. I was right and wrong…I bet you’re asking yourselves what I mean. Right, because Eliza did response back that and wrong, she will response some random things that doesn’t go with the response the person answer to. Everyone in the class was like want is going on and asking each other how you got my response as your answer back and vice versa. Final our teacher told us that the Eliza program is connected to different networks that whatever we type responding to the question it might be the reply of another and vice versa. After awhile I got bored of Eliza. It was proof that computers can’t act as human beings…..maybe not now! But when the technology get better in the future there can be computers that can act like humans but with greater intelligence. It’s sounds that I am going to far but it can be possible. After, reading the question of the week, the first thought that come to my head was the I Robot, movie. Especially the last couple minutes ‘til the end of the movie. That a computer program or system was controlling the robots from being super nice to super mean. She was created to interact with humans to help out, but she turn against the humans because she wanted to have power. I still don’t know why that movie came to mind. I bet it got to do nothing with Eliza or maybe it does (in some parts). Personally I wouldn’t like a computer to act human because many it can turn against us…great another example pop out in my mind. Like one of the episode of Futurama when anything that is control by the computer is going to control humans. I forgot the name of the episode…I was going to show a clip! I will find it soon so I can post it so many readers understand what I mean.