I reflect on my interactions with Alicebot, the Loebner Prize winner, finding it more infuriating than intelligent. Despite the limitations of current conversational agents like Iniaes, I plan to download and build my own custom Alicebot.
I documented my circular conversation with Iniaes, an early chatbot. Despite its attempt to learn about my life in Bombay and Madras, its grammatical pedantry and repetitive logic loops eventually drove me to give up.
I taught networking at my old school and found that while students are online constantly, very few create content or code. I reflect on how rigid curricula stifle creativity and why we should volunteer to teach.
An AI co-host can be genuinely compelling on stage as expert, comedian, and conversational foil, but once it gets too good it risks stealing the show entirely.
I’ve found that recruiting for startups requires hunting smart people in their natural clusters like GitHub or meetups. Since they're motivated by hard problems and autonomy, I suggest managing them like a community of volunteers rather than employees.
I share what I learned this week about extracting web pages with Trafilatura, exposing my laptop to ChatGPT, using voice mode as a tour guide, and easing LLM fatigue, plus corrections to six mistakes.