I was at the 2016 Bot Summit in London a couple of weeks ago. I did my best to capture salient points from every talk in a tweet. Here are all of them in order.
Now @v21 who made https://t.co/46XYTViILi about creating tools to enable people to play with technology. #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
.@v21 talking about learning, competency and sandboxes, reminds me of this talk by @helvetica: https://t.co/2A62R4yK7c #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
.@v21 hints at what skills may come in handy when creating bots: "Poets are better botmakers than programmers." #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
Important points by @ojahnn about how to make bots pick the right words and how that shapes our interaction with them. #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
I do think that using vernacular and colourful language is the most advanced part of language acquisition for humans and bots. #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
One point from @mtrc's talk is to not make bots pretend they are human. I think that is an approach that limits us both. #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
The bot by @M_PF &co that makes Katamari Damacy-like 3D printable objects on Thingiverse is amazing. https://t.co/sXCgapTUeX #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
A really important labour analysis of digital assistants by @HelenHester starting off with the Apple Knowledge Navigator. #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
.@HelenHester references @ibogost's hyperemployment as a rebranding of the relational work that used to be done by women. #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
Lots of references to @TayandYou at #botsummit which was just a bunch of engineers crunching hard to get something out before #BUILD16.
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
Brecht (so boring…) has a good point via @mewo2: “The audience should never forget they are interacting with a machine.”#botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
Lots of examples by @mewo2 of Brechtian digital technology that's more focused on enlightenment than on entertainment. #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
Or as @mewo2 put it eloquently: "A set of techniques which promote a realistic view of bots and a bot-like view of reality." #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
A live performance by @deer_ful of Graphic Score Bot. #botsummit @ Victoria and Albert Museum https://t.co/pNDeIPLqwE
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
Guidelines by @starsandrobots how to put personality into physical robots using this great example: https://t.co/6Utr3Lh1Cp #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
The guidelines by @starsandrobots are that a robot gets personality by being: expressive, generative, fun and surprising. #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
.@ArianaNGiorgi talks about the algorithmic journalism bots can (help) perform. See her slides here: https://t.co/QSRMLFeAnJ #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
One of my favorite journalistic bots is autotldr on @reddit: https://t.co/vIo07ACXuT (explanation: https://t.co/3erkE9CTsu ) #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
Sometimes my paraphrasing from #botsummit may be a bit too free. Here are the actual guidelines by @starsandrobots. https://t.co/tt3ESQeUgy
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
Oddly no mention of ELIZA yet (right?) at #botsummit though many have talked about the qualities people ascribe to even the simplest bots.
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
.@davelubin mentions ELIZA and “Computer Power and Human Reason”while explaining the ethical issues behind @TVCommentBot. #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
Live demo by davidlublin of the various TV bot comment modes #botsummit @ Victoria and Albert… https://t.co/wTnnfmdiex
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
.@erocdrahs who has made some amazing bots ( https://t.co/4lzn6xOvYZ ) made us think about what it could be like to be a bot. #botsummit
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
A beautiful closing of #botsummit by @katierosepipkin about taking up making bots as a folk art both personally and as a wider thing.
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016
#botsummit was an excellent mix of disciplines and of people who are in themselves a mix of these disciplines. END OF BOTCAST
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) April 9, 2016