Tomorrow is Today

PERSONAL NOTE: I’ve been fooling around with CyberTwin on and off for a little while now after I read about about a writer experimenting with it as a primary mode of communication with her friends. What interested me about McNeil’s experiment was the extent to which she was able to use a medium-sophisticated, free customer-service tool to learn meaningful new things about her friends.

I have done most of the basic setup of the bot, but the questionnaires are necessarily generic, so I need real interactions with real people to help me re-frame the responses to make it sound and feel more like me.

The chat bot is fairly primitive right now, so if you ask deliberately confusing questions, the chatbot will become confused.

W00T, YOU CONFUSED TEH CHATBOT, YOU WIN TEH INTERNETZ!!1!1!!1!

If you interact with it with realistic expectations, you may be surprised by how well it works; and the more people interact with the bot, the more I will be able to improve the bot based on your transcripts.