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Lightening workshop and artist talk:
=== How to overcome gender discrimination by building and training chat bots? Workshop and discussion in the context of Rendering Realities exhibition ===


Lightening workshop and artist talk with the [https://smellofdata.com/ Smell of Data by Leanne Wijnsma] and curator of the exhibition [[Margarita Osipian]].


In the context of Rendering Realities (Big Brother Awards exhibition) of the [https://bigbrotherawards.nl/ Big Brother Awards] Hackers & Designers invites the audience to discuss and experience their gender mirrored by chat bots. The bots will be trained collectively and on the spot. In order to compose new strategies to overcome online discrimination, that go beyond using initials only as female, H&D proposes to collectively comprehend the controversy, while training different bots and analyse them using the Turing test.


The Smell of Data is a scent developed to instinctively alert of data leaks on networked personal devices. The sense of smell helped early humans to survive. But now that our hunting and gathering has moved to the digital environment, our noses can no longer warn us of the lurking dangers in the online wilderness. Leanne will present her work, the series of prototypes it took to get to the final product, and her process and inspiration on giving a scent to data.  
The Smell of Data is a scent developed to instinctively alert of data leaks on networked personal devices. The sense of smell helped early humans to survive. But now that our hunting and gathering has moved to the digital environment, our noses can no longer warn us of the lurking dangers in the online wilderness. [[Leanne Wijnsma]] will present her work, the series of prototypes it took to get to the final product, and her process and inspiration on giving a scent to data.  


Doors open at 19:00 and the event will start at 19:30.


With the [https://smellofdata.com/ Smell of Data by Leanne Wijnsma] and curator of the exhibition during the Big Brother Awards Magarita Osipian.
In the context of Rendering Realities (Big Brother Awards exhibition) of the [https://bigbrotherawards.nl/ Big Brother Awards] Hackers & Designers invited the audience to discuss and experience their gender mirrored by chat bots. During the workshop bots were trained collectively on the spot, engaging the audience in a discussion on assigned gender roles and their reflection in digital applications.
In order to compose new strategies to overcome online discrimination, that go beyond using initials only as female, H&D proposed to collectively comprehend the controversy, while training different bots and analysing them using the Turing test.




About the exhibition:


Rendering Realities opens on Monday November 14 at 19:30, coinciding with the Big Brother Awards at Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. It is open on Tuesday November 15 and Wednesday November 16 from 12:00 to 18:00, with a workshop and artist talk on the evening of the 16th from 19:30 to 21:30 in collaboration with Hackers & Designers. Free entrance.


The exhibition is curated by Margarita Osipian


More information here: [https://www.facebook.com/events/1581886842120178/ www.facebook.com/events/1581886842120178/]




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Technical Details:
== Technical Details ==


The following steps should be used if you would like to run the bots as the Hackers & Designers terminals did during the workshop.
The following steps should be used if you would like to run the bots as the Hackers & Designers terminals did during the workshop.
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Optionally you can install python Levenshtein if you don't want a warning message while running the bots.
Optionally you can install python Levenshtein if you don't want a warning message while running the bots.


   $ pip install python-levenshtein
   $ sudo pip install python-levenshtein


The bots do use a bit of Python's natural language package (nltk), so download the following database.
The bots do use a bit of Python's natural language package (nltk), so download the following database.

Latest revision as of 16:36, 12 January 2020

Lightening Workshop: Gender mirroring bots & Turing test
Name Lightening Workshop: Gender mirroring bots & Turing test
Location SSBA Salon
Date 2016/11/16
Time 19:00-22:00
PeopleOrganisations Hackers & Designers, Leanne Wijnsma, Magarita Osipian
Type Meetup
Web Yes
Print No

Chatbot terminal.png


How to overcome gender discrimination by building and training chat bots? Workshop and discussion in the context of Rendering Realities exhibition

Lightening workshop and artist talk with the Smell of Data by Leanne Wijnsma and curator of the exhibition Margarita Osipian.


The Smell of Data is a scent developed to instinctively alert of data leaks on networked personal devices. The sense of smell helped early humans to survive. But now that our hunting and gathering has moved to the digital environment, our noses can no longer warn us of the lurking dangers in the online wilderness. Leanne Wijnsma will present her work, the series of prototypes it took to get to the final product, and her process and inspiration on giving a scent to data.


In the context of Rendering Realities (Big Brother Awards exhibition) of the Big Brother Awards Hackers & Designers invited the audience to discuss and experience their gender mirrored by chat bots. During the workshop bots were trained collectively on the spot, engaging the audience in a discussion on assigned gender roles and their reflection in digital applications. In order to compose new strategies to overcome online discrimination, that go beyond using initials only as female, H&D proposed to collectively comprehend the controversy, while training different bots and analysing them using the Turing test.





Technical Details

The following steps should be used if you would like to run the bots as the Hackers & Designers terminals did during the workshop.

Ensure you have Python 2.7.* installed.

Ensure you have Python's package manager pip installed.

Start by install Gunther Cox's Chatterbot via pip. This will ensure you get most of the dependencies.

  $ sudo pip install chatterbot

Optionally you can install python Levenshtein if you don't want a warning message while running the bots.

  $ sudo pip install python-levenshtein

The bots do use a bit of Python's natural language package (nltk), so download the following database.

  $ python -m textblob.download_corpora

Ensure you have git installed to grab the code from Github.

Clone the Chatterbot repository from Github.

  $ git clone git@github.com:hackersanddesigners/ChatterBot.git

Run the bot.

  $ cd Chatterbot
  $ python bot.py

After training the bot, we "turned off" learning by commenting out a line of code. Open the file with your favourite text editor, in the workshop we used nano.

  $ nano chatterbot/chatterbot.py

The line is around line number 207, and looks like this:

  self.learn_response(statement)

In python a comment is "#", so the line should look like:

  #self.learn_response(statement)

Save the file. In nano Ctrl+O, then Ctrl+X.

Run the bot again:

  $ python bot.py