From The Vergecast, this episode takes a look back at one of the earliest chapters in the history of AI. Before Alexa and Siri, there was ELIZA. The first chatbot ever was the creation of a man named…

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventin

How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.

A suite of tools that make the geometry of large language models, embedding spaces, and theoretical corpora legible as objects of empirical and critical analysis.

The German philosopher died on Saturday March 14, 2026, at the age of 96 in Starnberg, a spokesperson for the Suhrkamp publishing house said.

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

The phantasmagorias of space to which the flaneur devotes himself find a counterpart in the phantasmagorias of time to which the gambler is addicted. Gambling converts time into a narcotic (Benjamin 1...

Eliza was unveiled in 1966 at MIT by computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. Here's why the chatbot remains relevant today.

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Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions found online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now

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Critical Code Studies: 10 years later Almost 20 years ago, Mark Marino’s Critical Code Studies manifesto in electronic book review called for scholars to explore the extra-functional significance of ...

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

Welcome to the ELIZA Archaeology Project. This research project brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, artists, and programmers to explore the history and ideas around the ELIZA chatbo...

Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an International Journal publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short ...

The UK’s universities are among the best in the world. So why do many appear close to collapse?

Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024, The Times confirmed to Bl...