Jacob Lawrence, "Confrontation at the Bridge," 1975
Jacob Lawrence, Confrontation at the Bridge (1975)

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March 28, 2006:

Chatterbot.

You could program a basic AIML bot that would mimic him perfectly.

A simple index of inputs mapped to a simple matrix of responses.

Example:

Input: "Social Democracy."

Output: "Sheidemann! Noske! They murdered Rosa Luxemburg!"

I mean this literally. These are his politics. A library of rhetorical maneuvers.

In a way, he'd be glad to hear it. He could sleep all day with no worries. Someone's representing him.


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