It started when Ken realized that the vast majority of his interactions had moved online. He sent all his work in via email, his social communities were in online gaming, and his family talked through a complicted web of chat messages, photo apps, and video messages.
At the start of the new year, Ken made a resolution to be more time efficient. Contrary to previous years, he put this resolution into action, and took a long look at his daily life, work life, and regular habits.
In his quest to save time, Ken soon found that correspondence was a huge time commitment.
Emails were a craft, especially when they needed to sound heartfelt. Chat messages required an ongoing level of shallow investment, however minimal. Chatting between games online often took up more time than the gaming itself. Also, Ken’s mother hated it when he didn’t reply within a day.
So Ken began looking for ways to automate his correspondence.
The chatbot program seemed simple enough: after installation, and given enough time, it would learn to talk as he did.
For the first week, it did nothing, and Ken quickly forgot he had bought it.
During the second week, however, the chatbot began offering suggestions for finishing the sentences Ken was writing. A few words here…
