Royal Holloway University Science Festival. March 1st, 2014.
 
 
 

These are the questions and responses generated as people took the place of an AI chatbot like Pinnochion#1. These were stored alphabetically in a card index. In the conversation, if there was already a card for an input, that was the response the "AI" had to give. Otherwise they could generate their own.

I have put all the responses into an AIML chatbot that recognises and returns only what has been generated by people in this situation. As more people take part in this activity, its knowledge and reponses will grow.

 
be an ai calls
 

I managed to pick out some things from the conversations people have been having so far. This will get more interesting when comparing what happens in different situations. At the moment it is very basic.

This is how many of the cards were in each letter in the card index.

 
questions beginning with
 

"What", "where" and "are you" dominated. Most of the inputs were questions:

 
questions or not questions
 

This is what people chose to talk about:

 
kinds of input

I would be very curious to know if there is a similar topic balance in other situations.

And then there was this card, which I guess is probably the ultimate default for robot or human..

 
weather is nice