FutureProof: (Chatrooms, Bathhouses, and SRO's), 2021
AI neural network implementation (GPT2 and Char RNN), interactive website
FutureProof is a network of four interactive AI Chatbots that live in the Cloud: https://mhr1235.github.io/future_proof/
The four bots are:
swardspeak-bot : trained on social media posts in swardspeak (salitang beki): https://mhr1235.github.io/chatbot1/
leather-bot: trained on gay leather datasets: https://mhr1235.github.io/chatbot2/
manong-bot: trained on dialogue sets from archival I-hotel interviews: https://mhr1235.github.io/chatbot3/
showgirl-bot: trained on dialogue sets from SOMA cabaret performers: https://mhr1235.github.io/chatbot4/
Together the bots speak to and from a specific moment of convergent queer and FilipinX San Francisco SOMA communities and (his)stories. FutureProof makes it possible to text chat with the bots live on the web. *The Yerba Buena exhibition also presents offline video footage of the bot's conversation on monitors and projected on the museum exterior.