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A research team from the United States and the United Kingdom has recently succeeded in reviving a chatbot code known as ELIZA, which is considered the first electronic chatbot in history. According to their paper published on the arXiv preprint server, this code was originally written by the late MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s. In 2021, an MIT archivist named Miles Crowley discovered printed copies of this code in a box containing Weizenbaum's personal belongings. The revival of this code marks an important milestone in the history of artificial intelligence.

A study from the University of California, San Diego, found that GPT-4 has a success rate of over 41% in the Turing Test, surpassing ELIZA. ELIZA achieved a 27% success rate in simulating humans, while GPT-3.5 only managed 14%, leading to an awkward evaluation of modern AI technology. The research indicates that ChatGPT was not specifically designed to excel in the Turing Test, but GPT-4 performed significantly better in the evaluation. The reflections on the design and performance of modern AI chatbots have not undergone peer review, garnering attention from the industry.