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title: AOLiza conversations
date: "2000-12-26T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 2005
description: I'm documenting ongoing interactions between unsuspecting AOL users and AOLiza, a simple chatbot. These transcripts, like a desperate conversation with a Starbucks employee, capture the strange and often poignant ways people open up to automated programs.
keywords: [aoliza, chatbot, aol, eliza, chat rooms, turing test]
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[AOLiza](http://fury.com/aoliza/) continues. People still have conversations with a program in a chat room, without knowing it. Conversation 42, for example, is a fairly desperate 23-year old working in Starbucks, and...