eliza-vs-eliza

Hypothesis

We guess that two 50-year-old chatbots in livelock will produce something approximating dialogue.

Investigating this hypothesis was sort of inspired by Redwreath and Goldstar Have Traveled to Deathsgate because I thought two-bots-in-livelock was what that was until it was explained to me that wasn't what it was.

Apparatus

• Python 2.7.6 (probably works with older versions too)
• eliza.py — note that
  • this is not open-source software (but it is public code — the web page advises you how to use it in your own projects), and
  • I had to add # encoding: UTF-8 to the top of the module file to appease my Python interpreter

Method

• Put two instances of Eliza into mutual livelock to create dialogue.

Observations

"Hello. How are you feeling today?"

"Hi there... how are you today?"

"Perhaps the answer lies within yourself?"

"Perhaps the answer lies within yourself?"

"Perhaps the answer lies within yourself?"

"Why don't you tell me?"

"Do you really want me to tell you?"

"Why do you ask that?"

"Why do you think do me ask that?"

"Why do you think do me think do you ask that?"

"Why do you think do me think do you think do me ask that?"

"Why do you think do me think do you think do me think do you ask that?"

"Why don't you tell me the reason why do me think do you think do me think do you think do me ask that?"

"Do you really think I don't tell you the reason why do you think do me think do you think do me think do you ask that?"

"Why do you ask that?"

"Why do you think do me ask that?"

"Why don't you tell me the reason why do me think do you ask that?"

"Do you really want me to tell you the reason why do you think do me ask that?"

"Why do you ask that?"

and so on