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October 2023

Getting to know ELIZA: ChatGPT’s Great Grandmother

Wednesday, October 11 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155, 32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States + Google Map

A computer screen image showing a mock psychotherapist conversation with the ELIZA chatbot.

A team of scholars uncovered the source code in the MIT archives and embarked on an expedition through the code that has led them through twisty little passages into chambers of culture, history, and technological innovation.

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Brian Jacobson, “Pipeline Media”

Tuesday, October 17 @ 5:00 pm

MIT Building E14, Room 633, 75 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States + Google Map

Black and white photo of a man with binoculars sitting on a wrecking ball. The wrecking ball is on a small railcar on tracks and holding up a pipline.

French oil and gas companies needed new forms of technological vision to persuade powerbrokers and the public to support an undersea gas pipeline.