Coderbunker @Open Hub | Build a Robot Friend in Nodejs

“A cylinder sits in a room. It is impassive, smooth, simple and small. It stands 14.8cm high, with a single blue-green circular light that traces around its upper rim. It is silently attending. A woman walks into the room, carrying a sleeping child in her arms, and she addresses the cylinder.

‘Alexa, turn on the hall lights?’

The cylinder springs into life. ‘OK.’ The room lights up. The woman makes a faint nodding gesture, and carries the child upstairs.

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[I]n this fleeting moment of interaction, a vast matrix of capacities is invoked: interlaced chains of resource extraction, human labour and algorithmic processing across networks of mining, logistics, distribution, processing, prediction and optimization. The scale of this system is almost beyond human imagining. How can we begin to see it, to grasp its immensity and complexity as a connected form?”

— Anatomy of an AI System

by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler

About the Workshop

Curious about building your own Siri or Alexa? Need a friend that will always listen to you and do tasks without complaining? In this workshop, we’ll learn how to integrate API.ai’s “Small Talk” package into anodeJS application as well as write our own commands. Join this workshop to teach a bot what it means to be human after all.