{"id":56533,"date":"2016-08-26T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=56533"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:25:53","slug":"the-first-truly-awesome-chatbot-is-a-talking-t-rex-brownlee-edtech-chatbots-ai-hci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/08\/26\/the-first-truly-awesome-chatbot-is-a-talking-t-rex-brownlee-edtech-chatbots-ai-hci\/","title":{"rendered":"The first truly awesome chatbot is a talking T. Rex [Brownlee] #edtech #chatbots #AI #HCI"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first truly awesome chatbot is a talking T. Rex<\/strong><\/a> — from fastcodesign.com by John Brownlee
\nNational Geographic uses a virtual Tyrannosaur to teach kids about dinosaurs\u2014and succeeds where other chatbots fail.<\/em><\/p>\n

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As some have declared chatbots to be the “next webpage,” brands have scrambled to develop their own talkative bots, letting you do everything from order a pizza to rewrite your resume. The truth is, though, that a lot of these chatbots are actually quite stupid, and tend to have a hard time understanding natural human language. Sooner or later, users get frustrated bashing their heads up against the wall of a dim-witted bot’s AI.<\/p>\n

So how do you design around a chatbot’s walnut-sized brain? If you’re National Geographic Kids UK, you set your chatbot to the task of pretending to be a Tyrannosaurus rex, a Cretaceous-era apex predator that really had a walnut-sized brain (at least comparatively speaking).<\/p>\n

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She’s called Tina the T. rex, and by making it fun to learn about dinosaurs, she suggests that education<\/span> \u2014 rather than advertising or shopping \u2014 might be the real calling of chatbots.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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