Blog Post 12: New Social Media Technology

A while back I remember going through a website called Cleverbot.com. This is a website where you can chat with a robot. The responses are very realistic as at times you question whether you are texting with an actual robot or a human. Neither the less this brings up one of the technologies which I don’t remember talking too much in class about artificial intelligence chatbots. I have visited a couple websites where a chat box appears and says “Chat Live” and it would connect you either another human or a chatbot. These chats are usually to help you find a solution to a problem, but the problem is that some times the problem might be a “Picky/Detail” problem or something out of the ordinary that requires furthermore assistance. So this leads me to believe: Can bots like this be furthermore program to give users better detail assistance? What if the bots themselves start to collect data from users? Well, this might be true in the far future when the technology for ai bots gets up to a level of such fine detail, but what does this mean for social media and its potential for the future? I think if ai bots were to take on social media, not only would they help users with settings and navigation in their accounts but poteilly could do a bit more. Some examples would be asking the bots to keep a conversation with a user when you are bussy.The bots could potentilly bring up responses gather by data in other users among your own to give intellectual feedback to the receiver. Perhaps it can nottifie the other uses that you have turned on the bot to chat and the chatbot can have its own avatar in your account as if it was another version of you, but virtual. In other words, this would mean that the bots would have data from many users behind our screens to help people texting other people when they are away from their key boards.