Joseph Weizenbaum
person
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 11 Aug
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German‑born computer scientist who created ELIZA
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentDavid BerryThe Vergecast · Lessons from the very first chatbot · 5:12 · 11 Aug
…So Joseph Weizenbaum is quite an incredible character. I think that's fair to say. I mean, he was born in 1923 in Nazi Germany. He was Jewish, born to a kind of upper middle class family, actually. And of course, they start to suffer under the rise of the Nazis.…
David PearceThe Vergecast · Lessons from the very first chatbot · 4:54 · 11 Aug
…to the beginning here. And I want to talk about Joseph Weisenbaum a little bit, because I think a lot of the study that you guys have done is of Joseph Weisenbaum and his own feelings about the thing that he created. So give me just a flavor, David, of who Joseph Weisenbaum was.…
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