1. How does the author of “I bonded with a robot” describe how it feels to share their thoughts with an AI Chatbot? Quote a short passage from paragraph 4 using the parenthetical
citation style in your answer. You may choose to use one of the following signal phrases in your answer, or you may compose your own signal phrase to integrate the quotation into your sentence.
Sample signal or reporting phrases
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Somewhat surprisingly,
The author reports that, in their experience,
One obvious benefit of using an AI Chatbot is that Write your answer in the box below.
The author describes their feelings that, whenever they talk about their feelings or thoughts with the chatbot, they feel very calm and relaxed. They exchange views and in exchange, the woebot asks them friendly questions. Woebot’s natural language processing algorithm has blobs and pre-written answers, so according to the author, they hardly think about that concept (Annalee Newitz,2022, para 4).
2. Woebot is not a generative chatbot, meaning it does not create its unique replies to human input. How does Woebot choose its responses?
Quote a short passage from paragraph 7 using the parenthetical
citation style in your answer. For this question, choose an appropriate signal phrase on your own to integrate
the quotation into your sentence.
Write your answer in the box below.
According to the author, Woebot communicates with the buzzers using its own algorithm or AI program pre-written by the psychotherapist. In other words, Woebot came up with a unique answer or query from large data documents. It analyzes the questions used and selects the best one (Annalee Newitz,2022, para. 7).
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