Joseph Weizenbaum
This goo was worth a point in March 2023.
publication date: Sunday, February 26, 2023 (part of March 2023)
category: 
Inventions
clue: A computer scientist from Germany who created ELIZA, the first natural language processing computer program, in the mid-1960s at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, and Richard Slominsky
trivia: The clue was written by a chat-based AI program.
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