The most amazing "Inspirational Quote" bot ever..

[chibiusa Ling]

Okay lets do a fun thing. Go to this bot http://inspirobot.me and try to find the funniest quote you can and post results here. 

My fav so far Is this :

[chibiusa Ling]

One more for good measure to get the ball rolling

[Lindal Kidd]

/me facepalms.

Chib, you find these quotes INSPIRING??

/me hands you a card for Dial-a-Prayer.

[chibiusa Ling]

1 hour ago, Lindal Kidd said:

/me facepalms.

Chib, you find these quotes INSPIRING??

/me hands you a card for Dial-a-Prayer.

No. xD. The bot was supposedly meant to be an A.I that gives out inspiring quotes thats getting itself a bit muddled. Whether or not that true is something else but I just find the results it comes up quite funny.

[Phorumities]

took a few tries but finally got this one 

[Madelaine McMasters]

When I was little, I played with the random phrase generator program on Dad's computer. Though I modified both the algorithm and the dictionaries to make it more McMasters family focused, it was never as amusing as our daily stream of consciousness banter.

I don't sense any form of AI behind that quote generator, it just seems random to me... 

Here's the sort of inspiration that arises from real human intelligence...

That comes from my favorite source for inspirational posters... despair.com.

[ChinRey]

2 minutes ago, Phorumities said:

took a few tries but finally got this one

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That one actually makes sense!

I actually managed to get two in a row that weren't complete and utter nonsense:

 

 

Most of the time it produces stuff like this though:

 

1 minute ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I don't sense any form of AI behind that quote generator, it just seems random to me...

i agree. Only a human mind can create that level of confusion.

[Rolig Loon]

I love it, Maddy!  It captures the human spirit precisely.

Here's one that your Dad would have appreciated....

[ChinRey]

Here's one that is sheer sacrilege!

Box of chocolate pointless??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[Rolig Loon]

Oh, now THIS is getting fun!  It's making sense of everything .....

[ChinRey]

[LittleMe Jewell]

39 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I don't sense any form of AI behind that quote generator, it just seems random to me.

And the generator has really bad English skills.

[LittleMe Jewell]

40 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

That comes from my favorite source for inspirational posters... despair.com.

I've always loved that site.  I'd put many of those sayings up all over my office, except I'd get in a lot of trouble.

[LittleMe Jewell]

After many clicks on the quote generator it finally came up with one that at least made me laugh

[Claireschen Hesten]

      

      

 

[Qie Niangao]

Hey, it worked for Freud.

I actually find these "inspirational" in the sense of injecting abstract irrelevance to stimulate creativity.

My first experience of that was the Oblique Strategies of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt.

[Selene Gregoire]

On my first try:

 

[Selene Gregoire]

[ChinRey]

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It's interesting to see those waiting messgaes too. Right before this one, the message was "See? Everything makes sense now"

 

Edited November 18, 2018 by ChinRey

[Sagadin]

You do have to admire the sheer range of this bot's wisdom at least...

 

[ChinRey]

1 minute ago, Sagadin said:

You do have to admire the sheer range of this bot's wisdom at least...

What really disturbs me about all of this is that I know lots of people both in RL and SL who would take most of these "quotes" dead seriously at least when presented with those moody background pics.

[Sagadin]

3 minutes ago, ChinRey said:

What really disturbs me about all of this is that I know lots of people both in RL and SL who would take most of these "quotes" dead seriously at least when presented with those moody background pics.

Well maybe not this one:

 

[ChinRey]

2 minutes ago, Sagadin said:

Well maybe not this one:

A few would. That's a pretty dramatic picture and that matters more than the words.

[Madelaine McMasters]

5 minutes ago, Sagadin said:

You do have to admire the sheer range of this bot's wisdom at least...

It's not the AI's "wisdom", it's our ability to infer meaning where none exists. If you provide a context, in this case "inspiration", and then assemble random phrases, you're going to find "inspiration" somewhere in the mess. That will be our predisposition. There was no intelligence in the creation, only in the interpretation. And, you will remember the successes and forget the failures, that's how we work. The movie "Being There" explores this idea.

Juxtaposition is a powerful comedic device, and the random mixing of words and phrases will necessarily produce it. This is a central element of games like "Cards Against Humanity". I am oppositional, and have a childhood diagnosis to back up that claim. I've also been told I'm funny (that's for you to decide). I think these two characteristics may be related. I don't know whether my brain (which seems to operate fairly independently of "me") is better than average at finding odd interpretations of things, or worse than average at filtering them out. Either way, the result is that I might be thought funny because I present an above average amount of opposition juxtaposition. I do enjoy the irony that my sense of humor might indicate that my intelligence is a mirage.

[Annie Nova]

I thought this one was pretty good