Kind of exactly like that. They’re not capable of very meaningful conversations, but they can be convincing for a minute or two. Plenty of examples and info on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot
I’m not super familiar with ELIZA but this section of the text
ELIZA starts its process of responding to an input by a user by first examining the text input for a “keyword”. A “keyword” is a word designated as important by the acting ELIZA script,…”
makes it sound like an LLM with only a small pool of language data? An LM, if you will.
So without hardcoded I/O choice options à la 20 Questions, how is the latter supposed to function?
Kind of exactly like that. They’re not capable of very meaningful conversations, but they can be convincing for a minute or two. Plenty of examples and info on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot
Edit: namely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA is a great example.
I’m not super familiar with ELIZA but this section of the text
makes it sound like an LLM with only a small pool of language data? An LM, if you will.
Sure, but in this cases the responses are directly programmed to the keywords and not scrawling through datasets for patterns to replicate.
It never lies to you, at least. Unless you format your questions with lots of double negatives