David M. Berry
@berrydm.bsky.social
Professor currently researching AI, algorithms, software and the university in a digital age. Part of a research team that recently rediscovered the original Joseph Weizenbaum ELIZA source code.
🤖 60 Jahre #ELIZA! Gestern Abend haben wir über das Buch „Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI“ (@mitpress.bsky.social) diskutiert. @sarahciston.com und @berrydm.bsky.social gaben Einblicke in Geschichte, Code und historischen Kontext von Weizenbaums Chatbot.
weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social ↻ strippel.bsky.social (2/2): making it possible to use Weizenbaum's chatbot in its original form on-site. There are still places available; register here: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...
Christian Strippel@strippel.bsky.social · 2w agoIn genau einer Woche findet am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social die Buchvorstellung von „Inventing ELIZA“ statt. Wir arbeiten gerade daran, dass Weizenbaums Chatbot vor Ort im Original genutzt werden kann. Es gibt noch freie Plätze, Anmeldung hier: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...
“Geopolitical constraints are helping to crystallise a new and distinct model of technology governance. The next shock will not arrive in a container ship. It will spread via the principles that surround Chinese AI technologies. The world is not prepared for what will come next.” (Financial Times)
On Thu, Sept 3, 2026, @sarahciston.com and @berrydm.bsky.social will visit @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social to present their new book, “Inventing ELIZA,” about the development of the first chatbot by #JosephWeizenbaum 60 years ago. Registration: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun... #ELIZA60
weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social ↻ strippel.bsky.social (1/2): On Thursday, September 3, 2026, @sarahciston.com and @berrydm.bsky.social will be at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social to present their new book,
Just published open-access: @sarahciston.com et al., *Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI* direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... @berrydm.bsky.social
Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI
How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventin
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Great workshop on AI last week with @cdi-warwick.bsky.social . Thoughts provoked by the sessions and @berrydm.bsky.social's keynote.
Lots of interesting tools I’ve developed to investigate AI vector spaces vector-lab-tools.github.io
Vector Lab
A suite of tools that make the geometry of large language models, embedding spaces, and theoretical corpora legible as objects of empirical and critical analysis.
vector-lab-tools.github.io
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati... Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
The German philosopher died on Saturday March 14, 2026, at the age of 96 in Starnberg, a spokesperson for the Suhrkamp publishing house said.
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Writing on a 2016 PC laptop (Thinkpad), due to my 2024 MacBook having died, creates a real sense of digital friction. It concentrates the mind on the paradigm shift we’re living in. stunlaw.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
The Vector Medium
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
Vector Theory An extract from a new book I am writing stunlaw.blogspot.com/2026/02/vect...
Vector Theory
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University - great piece by @berrydm.bsky.social "academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late" stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
Involution and Artificial Intelligence Geertz observed that just as wet-rice cultivation became increasingly elaborate and labour-intensive without corresponding productivity increases, I want to argue that AI exhibits a form of technological involution. stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/07/invo...
Involution and Artificial Intelligence
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
Editors’ Choice: Prompt anxiety digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/prom...
Editors' Choice: Prompt Anxiety - Digital Humanities Now
The phantasmagorias of space to which the flaneur devotes himself find a counterpart in the phantasmagorias of time to which the gambler is addicted. Gambling converts time into a narcotic (Benjamin 1...
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Remembering Eliza, one of the first chatbots: Lessons, warnings it holds for AI today indianexpress.com/article/expl...
Remembering Eliza, one of the first chatbots: Lessons, warnings it holds for AI today
Eliza was unveiled in 1966 at MIT by computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. Here's why the chatbot remains relevant today.
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API: AUTHORITARIAN PROGRAMMING INTERFACE Why the Trump Administration's Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to legacy financial systems is so serious. stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/02/api-...
API: Authoritarian Programming Interface
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades
ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions found online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now
newscientist.com
The reconstruction of historical computer code, what we might call digital ruins, presents unique challenges for digital preservation and historical understanding. stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/01/digi...
Digital Ruins and Critical Code Studies: Towards an Ethics of Historical Software Reconstruction
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
As our December issue is due tomorrow, you can check out some interesting articles from the last month, including an article by @berrydm.bsky.social and Mark Marino on ELIZA and Critical Code Studies 20 years after Marino's Critical Code Studies Manifesto. electronicbookreview.com/essay/readin...
Reading ELIZA: Critical Code Studies in Action
Critical Code Studies: 10 years later Almost 20 years ago, Mark Marino’s Critical Code Studies manifesto in electronic book review called for scholars to explore the extra-functional significance of ...
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Reflections on Method for Critical Code Studies Critical code studies offers a crucial intervention for understanding the algorithms by studying source code through close reading techniques stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/12/refl...
Reflections on Method for Critical Code Studies
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
TEAM ELIZA submitted the full draft of our book about the code of the world's first chatbot. Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Peggy Weil , Jeff Shrager, Arthur Schwarz, Anthony Hay, Mark Marino and Peter Millican with Foreword by Janet Murray findingeliza.org
IS IT BECAUSE YOU ARE THE BARKER THAT YOU CAME TO ME It is. ELIZA, I need your help. electronicbookreview.com?mailpoet_rou...
ebr November 2024: Hermeneutic Learning Spirals
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who could have predicted that the full commodification of all human endeavor would result in feelings of dysphoria and meaninglessness
Dave Vanness@djvanness.bsky.social · 2y agoSobering read from @chronicle.com. I've focused a lot of effort on revealing and countering the effects of running #highered like a business, mostly focusing on faculty. But the transactional university has literally demoralized our students. #edsky #academicsky www.chronicle.com/article/cust...
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence. By Ted Chiang www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
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