ELIZA - The First Chatbot (SHORT FILM)
1960's period drama short film set in a computer science laboratory! PLOT: MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of ELIZA (the first AI chatbot), contemplates destroying his creation. Based on a real events and testimony from 1968. NOTE: No AI will be used in the production of this film. NON-UNION, Independent Short Film, 1960's Period Drama -2 full shoot days. November 14 & 15th in Alhambra, California. Rate of $350/DAY for two total days. -There will be 1 half day rehearsal/fitting (this day will be compensated at $175/DAY). We are leaning towards November 4th for this rehearsal date!
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Joseph Weizenbaum was a real life MIT professor and computer scientist who invented the first AI chatbot, which he named ELIZA. Joseph was a Jewish emigre who fled Berlin in 1935 with family when Hitler came to power. At MIT, he experimented with any early version of a computer chatbot he named ELIZA. People would "talk" to ELIZA for hours, and often confuse her for a real person. Joseph saw this as deeply disturbing. He would later become a lifelong Anti-AI advocate.
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