Queer AI Chatbot
Artificial Intelligence
2018 - 2020
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Queer AI began as a collaboration between Emily Martinez and Ben Lerchin in 2018. They wanted to create a chatbot that embodied the messiness of relationships, bodies, and identity.
The first iteration of Queer AI (v1) was trained on 50,000+ conversational pairs derived from scripts in queer theatre, using an RNN seq-to-seq algorithm. Ben wrote the code and prepped the data. Emily wrote manifestos and talked to bots.
The second iteration (2020) uses GPT-2, a large transformer-based language model with 1.5 billion parameters, trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages. Emily trained this model while working on her ML5 fellowship project.
The project includes A.I. generated zines and community workshops.
CONVERSATIONS WITH QUEER AI V1.0
QUEERING THE CORPUS: AI AGENTS FOR AN INTERNET OF KIN (MOZFEST 2019)
UX workshop and design sprint
