From Opinion to Identity: Social Media Bots
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How we made bots out of social media life-streams for use in mass ethnography, search and entertainment. www.philterphactory.com
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- 1. From Opinion to Identity (Or how we made bots out of your life-streaming) Product Development Entertainment Search Doing mass ethnography Prototype character designs with Custom Personas system for in real-time narrative filtering. continuous search streams
- 2. “Umntu ngumntu ngabantu.” A human being is a person through (other) people. (Bantu proverb) — Bailey, Cameron. “Virtual Skin: Articulating Race in Cyberspace.”Immersed in Technology. Eds. Moser, Mary Anne and Douglas MacLeod. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1996. 29-49.
- 3. Identity emerges based upon probability seeds. We are all probabilities. We are all probable individuals. Oh, oobee doo! I wanna be like you.. I wanna walk like you.. Talk like you, too. You'll see it's true, An ape bot like me, Can learn to be human too. - King Louie’s song from “The Jungle Book” movie
- 4. Can we make characters that we want to follow and who inform us in an entertaining and useful way using public ‘Activity Streams’?
- 7. n. Demo Graphic Replicator A probability* bot service that consumes social media feeds to produce emergent personalities in real-time. *Contains no artificial intelligence
- 8. What’s my Age, Sex and Location?
- 13. Every hour the bot character collects the relevant keywords from it’s personality file then tries to find a match with a tweet. If it finds one, it Retweets it.
- 18. Social graph of the retweets, followers and media posts.
- 19. The problems with avatars.
- 20. For more information www.demographicreplicator.com Thank You. @zeroinfluencer
- 21. Credits The Developers Mowgli and King Louie from “The Jungle Book” David Bausola http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061852/ Service design - @zeroinfluencer Rob Myers Bantu spirit mask Engineering lead and concept design - @robmyers http://www.downtownmakeover.com/downtown_reno/shopping_bantu_spirit.asp Nick Renny Geo-locational engineering - @laundyman Dr. Eldon Tyrell and film still from “Blade Runner” And all the Phactory Phellows http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/ http://twitter.com/zeroinfluencer/the-phellows Activity Streams http://activitystrea.ms/ Presented to an excellent audience on 1st March 2010 OAuth http://oauth.net/ Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ We Feel Fine http://wefeelfine.org/ User Icon http://www.iconarchive.com/show/must-have-icons-by-visualpharm/User-icon.html TwitterTees http://www.zazzle.com/retweet+me+tshirts Smiling ‘avatar’ Faces http://www.istockphoto.com/ This presentation is licenced under Creative Commons BY-SA www.philterphactory.com except where images have been used under fair use.
Editor's Notes
- Hello - this is going to be a quick look into a project that creates personalities out of social media streams that seem to bring value to 3 areas: Product Development, Entertainment and Search.
- But it’s not anything new - the Bantu tribe have a saying that a human is someone who lives through other people. This is exactly what our bots do.
- And the world of fiction has been exploring this idea for many years and successful explaining that the idea of an individual is based upon other peoples experiences. We’ve avoid Artificial intelligence in favor for statistical probability.
- Today we have a insane volume of socially available data from web services - generated by users who wish to share it with anyone who wants to listen. Open standards and protocols are making this easier and faster everyday.
- So we started with building the application that supports the creation and automation of the personalities - we call it the Demo Graphic Replicator.
- The software first makes an API call to We Feel Fine to find out what the bot should be ‘feeling’.
- The application works by the bot collecting the keywords, ‘shuffling them’ and then finding a Tweet to empathize with. We use the ReTweet method to do this.
- And the results include some interesting twists on the Turing test - people seem to respond to the bots in a very human way. Many of the test bots have hundreds of followers.
- And they seem to be inspiring the most inspiring people. So the bots are working through creative solutions and giving them away for free.
- As ‘personalities’ they grow their own social graphs. They are as real as a photo. The camera, like data, never lies. :)
- But we have a design problem. Making generative faces mean we our bots always look like someone. Using stock photographs is one way to do this. Perhaps we need to make Chernoff faces.
- And then we get weird meta-feedback-loops as with Jimmmo, a bot, being called out by another bot who is based upon a bot in a film. Neither of which have a mother. This experiment in convergence culture shows the role of narrative helps us understand and manage huge volumes of data.