I have to admit that twitterbots don’t make any sense to me– they always read like Frankenstein sentences, or like the word salad of a schizophrenic: close to sentences, but not quite there, gramatically off enough to make me feel physically upset.  I mean, it’s not just that I don’t understand the sentences, it’s just that they’re so off from real sentences that I don’t really understand the joke.

So, I think I might’ve cheated.  I went to a “make your own bot” site, but the deal is that you write answers to questions that might get asked.  I decided to take an old trick from Turing Test competitors in the nineties– when their bots didn’t know how to answer a question, they responded with a wide open question.  I guess my algorthym is: answer with a question.  Every time.

I wrote some questions myself, stole some from Nietzsche and Plato and old soul songs.   I am looking for question donations if y’all are willing. I started doing this sort of halfheartedly, to check out the bot and see if I thought I should use it for this Signment.  But then I realized I really liked it.  A million questions started running through my head.  I started thinking of it as an idea generator.  Or a life crisis generator.

I wanted to embed it, but WordPress wouldn’t let me, so here’s the link:

https://www.chatbot4u.com/en/chatbots/material.html

And here’s a screenshot: