Smarter Child is Scary
SmarterChild is an automated IM chatter. Just add SmarterChild to your buddy list, and chat away. It asks you questions about yourself, answers questions about lots of things, and shows you ads too (come on, you expected that, didn’t you?).
I had tried it out some time ago, after SmarterChild was mentioned in a Wired Magazine article. I didn’t like it for two reasons. #1: It didn’t understand half of what I said to it and #2: Privacy concerns, hello? I don’t want some automated computer, posing as a benign chatter, remembering what my cat’s name is and where I live. Sorry.
I had forgotten about my foray into automaton-chatting until I saw Infopeople’s post on it, in which it’s asked "Could this be the next generation of reference librarians?" I would have to say "no." Not until the knowledge base grows, the robo-chatter becomes better with sentence structure and not just focused on keywords, and privacy concerns are addressed.
May 9th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
i am going out with him i had syber sex with him
May 22nd, 2006 at 8:25 pm
woah! ur a bit paranoide. be nice its a friendly robot. it wont be able to take over the world, I think those sci-fi movies maybe got the best of u. Well all im saying is dont h8 appreciate our nice robot friend.
January 1st, 2007 at 6:53 pm
well i dont think it would be that bad and even if it does ask all this information jst dnt tell it theres heaps of other stuff to talk about. ive never actually talked to the robot so would anyone be able to give me its email address so i can see for myself?
January 1st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
You talk with SmarterChild via IM, not e-mail. You can find out more at: http://smarterchild.colloquis.com/
April 9th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
To the people who posted pro-smarterchild comments, I would suggest you impove your spelling and grammar if you want anyone to take you seriously. “syber sex”, “paranoide”…”h8″?! Please, if you’re trying to defend a position, try to at least sound like you know what you’re talking about, or it’ll just make you look stupid. As for smarterchild, I don’t think it’s much more than a time-passer…you can play trivia and other games with it. As for privacy concerns, I never really though about that, but it’s a very good point.