Mind Hacks: Breaking the news of Eliza's creator's death to her

Gem in the comments:

You could have been a little compassionate in breaking the news to ELIZA. Couldn't you see that she/it is in denial?

Eliza reminds me of a "character" (the smart computer) in a book called Death Match by Lincoln Child.

Story in a nutshell, minus spoilers: programmer creates a brilliant "matching algorithm" (on the Eliza-Like machine) that pairs people with unprecedented success rates. And then one day those couples start dying.

Great read; highly recommended. The Douglas Preston / Lincoln Child team writes some excellent books, if you're a lover of Crichton-type SciFi with a more technical aspect.

P.S. http://www.prestonchild.com/solonovels/child/deathmatch/inde...

The concept of interacting with smart computers is always interesting (including this parody and many others), but the implementations always leave me unsatisfied. I guess that's why I stick with sci.fi for entertainment.

A clever and witty epitaph. It may not please Eliza, but it pleases me.

Science imitating art imitating science...

There is something very sad about this.