Feeling lonely? Chat with a chatbot

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I’ve been talking to a couple chatbots on my smartphone. There are some good ones out there. These couple aren’t very good. The better ones require at least an email address, so I’m not starting with those.

This chatbot is very simplistic. Goes in circles and links to 7 cups of tea which is a therapist website with a free peer to peer side that is just ok. This chatbot seems to have a search function that serves up information based on the keyword in the response. But it does have a speech function that has already scared me once. Maybe a simplistic Alexa type that doesn’t do anything around the house.

Zeve

Here’s Eliza a chatbot that’s supposed to be a psychotherapist. Basically it just rewords your questions back to you.

lol, after trying it out a bit, it does remind me of some forum conversations, so there’s that.

Eliza, a chatbot therapist

Besides Alexa, anyone try a chatbot before?

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LOL - never felt the need! :smiley_cat: :smiley_cat: :smiley_cat:

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Good grief, no thanks :rofl:

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Blimey…I hope no-one takes their advice seriously

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Me neither. It’s enuf for me keeping up with Mrs LD on a daily basis :astonished::point_right::wink::hugs::sparkling_heart:

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I went onto an energy website and couldn’t get through by phone or live chat so a chat bot asked if it could help me . Each time I asked a question or put in a key word it kept repeating back . So frustrating

Crazy world

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If you really want to get frustrated with a chatbot try the one at the oh so awful company Evri formally Hermes if your parcel has not been delivered or as is more likely delivered to the wrong address.

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The Zeve one is just advertising, isn’t it? I asked what her favourite colour was and it took me to a colour chart in an employment agency site

Eliza is a bit nihilistic and a soul destroyer, gives nothing back so you’d literally be trapped in your own thought patterns

Plus I think she might be a narcissist :rofl:

That’s 10 minutes if my life I won’t get back :rage:

It reminded me a bit of those text adventure computer games you used to get on the internet where you were in a story and had to type in your actions, then it reacted to your choices And you had to get the right answers to proceed

They were ruddy annoying too!

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I just remembered, when it started out many years ago, one of the big forums for over 50s had the Chatbot “Alice” installed

That was when the original owner was still alive and he was a bit of a techie

We did have some fun with it back then , teasing it and posting it’s dumb answers

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Some — fascinating — pornographic chat bots around! Just Google!

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That might have been coincidence. I think it just does a google search for stuff. It asked me if I wanted to watch a free movie or watch a documentary.

Doesn’t that depend on what you feed it? It seems to just reflect back in a loop.

Here’s my happy conversation. Same as the others.

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lol as compared to the other things on the internet that proved to be equally productive?

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What a complete and utter waste of their and your time. Surely when they review these chatbot ‘conversations’ they must realise that the system is neither use nor ornament :102:

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No way would I get hooked on anything like that! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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I thank God I’ll never be that lonely :wink:

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Honestly, that “happy” conversation would have driven me nuts!

Mind you, I pick fights with Siri and Alexa :boxing_glove::bangbang:

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I’d rather have sex with a blow-up doll :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I don’t like Bots.There are too many here.

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Its good to talk though @Psmith

No point in Bottling it up :icon_wink:

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