Dadbot Chatbot

Tis I, the Beloved and Noble Father!" These were the first words uttered by what James Vlahos called the 'Dadbot': an incarnation of his now-deceased father as a fully-functional Facebook messenger chatbot. James first wrote about this story in WIRED magazine. Armed with thousands of answers about his life, talking points, jokes and songs, the Dadbot essentially works in the same way that you might ask Siri about the weather; the difference is that the answers come from a dead San Francisco man who was born to Greek immigrants in 1936. You know – same same, but different. This is an amazingly inovative use for oral history. Read more and watch video here.