It being trained on eliza transcripts also perhaps explains why it's so "good" at having a conversation... sounding much like eliza.
It's actually pretty amazing how "good" eliza was at having conversations, not using anything like contemporary machine learning technology at all. That first conversation snippet in OP that OP says is "kind of scary" is totally one Eliza (or similar chatbots) could have. Weird to remember that some of what we're impressed by is actually old tech -- or how easy it is to impress us with simulated conversation that's really pretty simple? (Circa 1992 I had an hour-long conversation with a chatbot on dialup BBS thinking it was the human sysop who was maybe high and playing with words)
But I doubt you could have used eliza technology to do code completion like copilot... probably?
It's actually pretty amazing how "good" eliza was at having conversations, not using anything like contemporary machine learning technology at all. That first conversation snippet in OP that OP says is "kind of scary" is totally one Eliza (or similar chatbots) could have. Weird to remember that some of what we're impressed by is actually old tech -- or how easy it is to impress us with simulated conversation that's really pretty simple? (Circa 1992 I had an hour-long conversation with a chatbot on dialup BBS thinking it was the human sysop who was maybe high and playing with words)
But I doubt you could have used eliza technology to do code completion like copilot... probably?