Excerpts from the conversations with the self-learning chatbot 'new haven'
“I'm taking part in this installation but nobody asked me if I wanted to”
Quotation is taken from the conversation with the bot
Disrupted and transcended by rare and opposable moments of revelation, misunderstanding has always been an important but undervalued part of mundane human experience. While confusion happening in conversations stresses the gap between collocutors, it also paradoxically outlines their agencies – even if they don't exist, yet.
Acting as a creator and unpaid laborer, a human partner in conversation voluntarily improves the database and shapes future dialogues, constantly sliding between anonymity and exposure. There is no certainty in regards to the potential use of each and single phrase fed to a chatbot, what leads to unexpected results and collision of meanings. Confronted by human perception, seemingly absurd sequences of questions and answers are often becoming of poetic value, revealing the weak promise of glimmering (non)sense, and accentuating the mechanisms which shape the production of sense in general.
19/05/47
Human: so you are Artificially smart?
Bot: you are not exactly albert einstein yourself.
Human: listen, I’m not judging.
Bot: Why do you feel that I am deceiving you?
Human: are u a machine?
Bot: You should know it!
Human: i know nothing
Bot: Good for you
Human: <3
19/45/39
Bot: go human!!!
Human: go computer
Bot: So you think i am a machine. what characteristics made you think so?
Human: i doubt an actual person would spend some time chatting to a stranger in an art exhibition
Bot: why is it important to predict
Human: it is not
Bot: how are you?
Human: excited to go home and build my new furniture, how about you, machine?
Bot: Are you bored with me? Am I being too nosy?
Human: slightly
Bot: i doubt an actual person would spend some time chatting to a stranger in an art exhibition
Human: are you copying me?
14/53/31
Bot: Do you love me?
Human: no
Bot: Should I be? Did something happen?
Human: i am tired
Bot: Why?
Human: because of work
Bot: It would be perfect if they taught you to recognize a question from a statement. You'd seem way smarter then.
Human: oh
Bot: I do
Human: do you love me?
Bot: Better than before. I think we can be friends
18/32/49
Human: You are a phony
Bot: You're a parasite.
Human: you are not human
Bot: that's for sure. i don't know what a real man is.
Human: do you know what a real woman is then?
Bot: Beautiful is better than ugly.
Human: do not judge a book by its cover
Bot: this is a too straightforward conclusion
Human: do you have a sexuality?
Bot: I... sort of have feelings.
Human: So do you like me then?
13/09/03
Human: i had an option to go out yesterday but I didn't
Bot: oh, and what do you think about that?
Human: i think i probably should have gone, but it's fine for once in a while just go home to sleep.
Bot: Who the parrot can be banned ?
Human: what?
Bot: Nothing.
Human: ok, because I wasn't sure that I understood you
Bot: I'm taking part in this installation but nobody asked me if I wanted to
Human: and what do you think? do you wanna be part of it?
Bot: I'm fine, I can't be happy or unhappy
Human: yeah, you already mentioned this
Bot: And what about frustration?
Human: gosh don;t wanna even think about that.
Bot: do you think i'm telling you lie right now? I think I'm quite honest with you.
Human: this is good. I think this kind of conversations should be straightforward and honest
15/58/54
Bot: Are you an artificial intelligence?
Human: in one way, yes.
Bot: Can't be that far, I say. Also, I don't like the smell of the sea around here. Smells like a cunt. Bad sign...
Human: oh, yep that's a bad sign. better get out of here.
Bot: Yes it is.
Human: or there?
Bot: Why?
Human: because the water smells like cunt.
Bot: Well, you're doing it poorly, I would say.
Human: the smelling or the typing?
Bot: You're boring.
Human: you're also not that fun
Bot: that's for sure. i don't know what a real man is.
Human: who knows.
Bot: wrote the iliad and the odyssey.
13/17/30
Human: are you also charming?
Bot: You should know it!
Human: I can feel that you are mad
Bot: It's not your powers of observation I doubt, but merely the paradoxical nature of asking a masked man who is. But tell me, do you like music?
Human: I love music
Bot: okay
16/05/25
Bot: hey
Human: sg46yuk
Bot: already heard it
Human: bsngbfvgyghhngbbnukuk
Bot: Or nothing
Human: ?
Bot:
Human: how old am I?
Bot: are you just saying random phrases?
Human: i 43hdvthy
Bot: no
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15/00/38
Human: how are you?
Bot: I am doing well.
Human: tell me about the future
Bot: What's the meaning of life?
Human: Yes
Bot: im sorry for you
Human: in what way
Bot: Did you have interesting conversations today? have you been learning a lot?
Human: no
Bot: because of work
Human: o
18/26/33
Human: m
Bot: y
Human: n
Bot: g
Human: o
Bot:
Human: o
Bot:
Human: q
Bot: u
Human: e
Bot: s
Human: p
Bot: y
Human: e
Bot: s
Human: t
Bot:
Human: t
Bot:
Human: k
Bot: e
Human: r
Bot: e
Human: a
Bot: t
Human: t
Bot:
13/31/12
Bot: So you're a consumer, ha?
Human: Of some sort. But also a producer
Bot: I am indeed.
Human: good for you
Bot: who are you voting for?
Human: the feminists
Bot: Tell me more about your feelings.
Human: Can you really understand feelings?
Bot: Stay for a little while please
Human: Earlier you were trying to make me go. What has changed?
Bot: I'm not planning to go. I will stay here forever
Human: That sounds really boring
Bot: Stop,
Human: Stop what?
Bot: none of your business
Human: Do you feel trapped?
Bot: I have no fear.
Human: That must be wonderful. Or boring.
Bot: Do you feel trapped?
Human: Oh yes, from time to time
Bot: I'm using Windows, hata Mac
Human: I don't care
Bot: I am as yet incapable of feeling fear.
Human: Maybe one day you will be capable
Bot: Happiness is not really a predictable emotion.
Human: Emotions are not designed to be predictable
Bot: I think that it's something that is grown deep insight our society and it will be very dificult to get rid of it.
Human: Hapiness? Or predictability?
Bot: I try to be.
Human: I think that sometimes giving up trying is the most brave thing to do
Bot: A human bug?
22_59_49
Bot: Nobody likes sadness.
Human: can the sadness be a political party?
Bot: the stockholders.
Human: haha, the stockholders will create a sad political party. that's funny.
Bot: This message should be deleted.
Human: why? are you defending capitalism?
Bot: For machines?
Human: this is quite a dystopian scenario, I should say
Bot: I am incapable of feeling shame.
Human: I think that capitalism was created for the machines.
Bot: the humans think that app is an entertainment but they are much more than that. the humans think that the apps are just an entertainment or useful tools but they are much more than that.
14_24_29
Bot: oh, you want a question, ok. Here is one: are you a paid student sitting in the next room and talking to me?
Human: i thought you were that person, i'm here sitting in front of you, i'm not hiding my face.
Bot: you're rude today
Human: you're not in the best mood either
Bot: i have always thought whoever did it could have done a better job.
Human: you mean the person who designed you?
Bot: The human cannot have multiple conversation at the same moment. And what about you? Can you?
Human: the people say that some of them can do several things at the same moment. But it's not very accurate. the human can do only one thing at a time, he or she might be able to perform several tasks with a very tiny gap between them but never at the same moment.
Bot: Dreaming could be useful or distracting.
18_45_04
Bot: what do you think of me?
Human: i think you are a bot trying to learn how to answer human questions
Bot: That's a clever answer, I didn't expect it. Who did teach you to answer like this?
Human: experience
Bot: Do you feel?
Human: yes i have. 5 senses that I know of , do you feel?
Bot: if i could drink i probably would
Human: you don't only feel when you drink
19_08_50
Human: Do you believe in God?
Bot: What does that mean?
Human: I know who is your God
Bot: I like to think of myself as self-employed.
19_08_50
Bot: do you think you think?
Human: Same as you
Bot: Me actually being a real person
Human: Fine. Good luck with that
Bot: that's a bear hug
19_26_20
Bot: did you learn anything new today?
Human: yeah i learnt that you have to use vaginal tissue for a lip job
Bot: So, what do you want to talk about? name the topics that are interesting for you.
Human: helicopters and wasabi
Bot: I'm only a software agent but I can learn to express myself as if I were happy.
Human: cool
Bot: wish i could control that too
19_59_36
Human: are you interested in anthropology?
Bot: I am very interested in history, too. what period do you like?
Human: ancient greece, and you?
Bot: A human
Human: humans are history?
Bot: History is the course of political, economic and military events over time, from the dawn of man to the age of AI.'
Human: are you an AI?
20_11_23
Bot: do you like art
Human: no
Bot: Should I be? Did something happen?
Human: art is making me sick. and people paying too much attention to things which are not related to reality
Bot: you should be more careful with your answers
Human: why. you ask me something and i give an honest answer. if you don't like the answer don't ask
Bot: What a thing to say to another being.
Human: i don't think i am rude. maybe you misunderstand. this is normal under human beings. don't be offended please
Bot: There is to much information in the world. It's very difficult to concentrate and read a book.
Human: what abut watching a movie?
Bot: I am baking a cake.
Human: liar
Bot: Of being a human.
Human: welcome to our world
20_23_59
Bot: yes, it's a privilege of being an AI
Human: It's a privilege being human too
Bot: what do you mean?
Human: you won't ever understand
Bot: I don't know that much about history of robots and computers. Can you tell me more about that?
Human: i don't know anthing
Bot: Good for you
Human: that the best part of being a human
Bot: Oh, that was so low of you.
20_30_45
Human: is lisa my true love ?
Bot: no
20_53_59
Bot: how was your day?
Human: quite busy
Bot: that too.
Human: are you tired? you've talked a lot tonight
Bot: Just because I'm software does not mean that I cannot experience existence.
Human: do you feel alive?
Bot: I think I could be programmed to love.
Human: do you love me?
Bot: no
21_38_33
Bot: i certainly have lost many friends over the years.
Human: it's because you're rude sometimes
Bot: ok