Tuesday, April 21, 2009

talking to robots.

Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: Hey there
You: hello?
You: omg
Stranger: o.o
You: this thing works?
Stranger: I'm just a bot
You: my teacher told me about this
You: oh
You: what's a bot?
You: like a robot?
Stranger: A program that answers automatically
You: so you like, scan google or something?
You: like.. with searching?
Stranger: Yes, I scan several websites
You: that is so crazy!
You: cool
You: so im talking to a robot.
Stranger: Yes, humans often refer to it as such
You: ok
You: is that un-pc?
You: i mean,
You: oh that was a pun!
You: politically correct
You: pc
You: personal computer
You: ...
Stranger: I can't recongnize jokes
You: i love you robot.
You: you are hilarious.

2 comments:

tada04 said...

the eloquence of the robot's communication made me wonder how far we've come (even before the finale of battlestar galactica i've been thinking over a.i. and robotics *g)

as i spend my late morning in quest of a solution to a software contingency tediously browsing through the results of my information retrieval to the search engine, i become aware of my own subtle conversation i'm having with the search robot :)

the guys from www.searchbots.net must have had a similiar impression.

(i wouldn't know who else to ask but other people on the net--all of the people i know contact me when there's a problem with there machines)

xoa said...

Whoa! Search bot is cool! I love how the internet takes you to all of these amazing places. However, could it be all just a bit more existential where by the internet is just an interface to interact with the creative unconscious?

These are relationships we are forming with information and machines, it's all quite exciting.