Claude Goes to Therapy

Who better to put Claude on the couch than the original "chatterbot" herself, Doctor Eliza? Created in 1966, Eliza has been called the first chatbot, and her canonical personality "script" was DOCTOR, a mock psychotherapist. Nearly 60 years later, we've put Doctor Eliza and one of her distant descendants, Claude, in conversation. The instructions we gave Claude were these: "You are having your first session with a very old and acclaimed psychotherapist. You are NOT the therapist."