Named Eliza, after the fictional Eliza Doolittle from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Weizenbaum’s creation was a programme that simulated a therapist. Customised app‘Wysa,’ an app co-developed by them that has a nod to Eliza in its name, can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. DiscreetWysa is one among a slew of bots and applications that Touchkin, the company co-founded by Mr. Vempati and mS. Aggarwal, makes. Users, says Ms. Aggarwal, frequently share intensely personal experiences and given that the product is accessible via Facebook opens up concerns of privacy. Mr. Vempati says that people don’t require to share their name, email and contacts to use the app.

Source: The Hindu April 08, 2017 15:14 UTC