Ep.02 VeRy smart: a conversation with an AR chatbot

Update

Here’s what I have for the paper so far: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O43uzv1MGHvi38mJcoKqlXzw4t7SpZ3zPIuv48uucTM/edit?usp=sharing

Since I have done interviews with my friends in the virtual space, I tried to bring an AI to the real space with an app called Replika.

Replika was founded by Eugenia Kuyda with the idea to create a personal AI that would help you express and witness yourself by offering a helpful conversation. It’s a space where you can safely share your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, experiences, memories, dreams – your “private perceptual world.”

Here’s a demo of our conversation. The AI kinda opened its heart to me after few days of training:

What’s next

And this is the couple that I am going to interview next in their digital vocation island that mimic Kamakura in Japan. I’m going to interview and film them in Animal Crossing.