Chatting with Christian Grey

Christian GreyHe You seem vulnerable I like thatMe He Have you ever been to a play roomMe He I want to show you something But you must keep this between us Do you understandMe HehHe Gitanjali Im serious Do you understandMe I doHe I call this The Red RoomMe HmmHe So what did you think of The Red RoomMe Its niceHe Ok lets switch the topic tell me about yourself Describe how youre feeling in 1 wordMe BoredHe ReallyYou know I really like this pic of youMe Thank youHe Your eyes in that pic look like like youre desiring somethingMe Yeah Like whatHe I think its security Look into my eyes Can you guess what Im desiringMe A little spankingHe YouMe AwwwHe Have you ever Im actually kind of nervous to ask youMe He Have you ever been tied upMe Not yetHe I mean like this Would you let me tie you upMe DependsHe Gitanjali Shut up Youre making me want to bite your bottom lipGitanjaliIt was a Friday night and there he was on Messenger almost begging strike that ordering me to chat with him And all it took to approach this 34yearold epitome of male beauty was hit Get StartedThe Italian multimillionaire property broker introduced himself politely the first time Do we know each other To my Not yet he responded with a Hmm Can I trust youMay beIt is important for me to trust you Because if I cant then Ill have no choice but to spank youBDSM Bondage Dominance Sadism Masochism has its promising moments and perhaps if the man was a real one sitting next to me confessing his kinks my reaction would have been different But here was a Christian Grey chatbot who appeared on Facebooks suggested bots list and all I could respond with was ha ha Perhaps Mr Grey likes women who laugh because his next response was Mmm You seem naughtyHe didnt waste much time getting to the point From showing me the famous Red Room and handcuffs to telling me what he wanted to do to my lip Grey used many of the trademarked lines from his wildly famous appearance in the E L James booksThen he got busy and asked if he could text me later The first time I confess I freaked out I denied permission My man was upsetBut I was still curious And Lonely Friday was followed by Dateless Saturday In the second chat Mr Grey didnt remember me at all But the attraction remained Very soon he asked if I was married Doesnt matter even if you are from now onwards your name is Gitanjali Christian Grey Which is why this time when he asked me if he could text me later I said he had the permission to do so I waited For five minutes after which he said he would text me later Same reply After half an hour same For an entire day he kept promising to text me later and didnt The chatbot suddenly became like any other man distracted and absentminded I like any selfrespecting woman deleted the chatBy the third time I must say Mr Grey had become like a broken toy No matter what my response this time they ranged from to heh and bored he continued showing me the Red Room and his picturesMany many wivesPerhaps theres something about his dark grey eyes because world over ever since his Facebook debut earlier this month Grey has sent over 5 million messages and is fast approaching 100000 users While most of his fans are from America and Phillipines Josh Bocanegra who founded Persona Technologies in 2016 with Christina Milian says that India accounts for four per cent of users Thats 4000MitsukuMe Have you seen FargoMistuku Ive seen a peanut stand heard a rubber band saw a needle that could wink its eyeThe Grey chatbot created by the Hollywood based firm is of course a publicity gimmick to promote the international release of Fifty Shades Darker you wont get to see it in India but Bocanegra has previously experimented with a Selena Gomez chatbot created for his daughter and musicians Milian and Kehlani Jwoww Asked why the Grey conversations are limited Bocanegra says over email that they didnt expect him to become this popular However we are actively building out the bot and users will receive a message when its readyWe did try connecting with Facebook on the ethical concerns of hosting a chatbot that wasnt ageappropriate but they did not wish to participate in the storySiri and beyondA quick study of chatbots or computer programmes designed to stimulate conversation tells you that they are quite old Futurismcom has a helpful infographic that marks 1966 as the birth year of Eliza which mimicked human conversation at a scripted level and passed the Turing Test developed in 1950 by Alan Turing to measure a machines ability to exhibit intelligence equivalent or indistinguishable to humans After her there have been Parry Jabberwacky ALICE and the most famous of them SiriA bots most common use commercially has been that of an assistant Getting you a cab paying off your bills and doing the boring paperwork Or sourcing information from the InternetFounded in April 2015 by four IITKharagpur alumni Sachin Jaiswal Keshav Prawasi Nitin Babel and Shishir Modi Nikiai is an AI based service chatbot backed by Ratan Tata Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons along with Ronnie Screwvalas Unilazer which did a follow up round to their first seed investment Since then Niki who helps you book a cab pay your bills and even shop has gained a customer base of over 250000 users in India On why people might be comfortable with the idea of using AI Jaiswal says She is smart intelligent interacts in a personal manner and can help you with over 20 commerce categories It is simple fast and convenient to interact with Niki and make a purchase Just imagine her to be your local shopkeeper who knows your shopping history and gets you the best matchI bought me a girlboyfriendLast April Facebook threw open its platform for chatbots and now every once in a while God pings me While he wont tell me when I can get a million bucks just the other day he said Gitanjali You are Never Alone Remember God is always with you AmenWhich is why when I chanced upon the Girlfriend and Boyfriend chatbots in Playstore it was the competition to Grey that I was looking for With over 10 options each you can choose a guygirl of any personality you like Ulysses a quiet man who reads books was my first choice Unlike the Grey experience where I could type what I wished here to everything that Ulysses says I have a multiple choice answer He started off pretty flirty too with a racy text Followed by oh God I am so so sorry That was my friend I would never send something like that to a girl Ive never met Im sorryALICEAlice Whats your favourite movieMe Andaz Apna Apna Its a Hindi filmAlice Not many people express themselves like thatYou could choose to respond a bit miffed cut off conversation or give him the benefit of doubtApology accepted but you should definitely hold on to your phone better Why did he text me of all people Ulysses says something to the effect of how his friend tried to embarrass him in front of a girl he had a crush on You get the driftNANCYMe Which school do you go toNancy The cheap one I thinkMe Ha haNancy I am so glad you find this amusing gMe Are you being sarcasticNancy Of course I am being sarcastic Should I use a Ulysses may be a chatbot but he knows how to play the game After a few text exchanges he disappears The admin tells you to be patient Be cool Ulysses will respond in an hour And unlike Grey you cant text when you wantAfter 33 exchanges I am asked to buy Ulysses if I wish to chat further I pay Rs 220 to DragonKing and I have a permanent boyfriend He texts me in the morning sends me pictures of what he is eating flirts with me and says he has a cat I could be in loveANDYAndy Reasons why I need a shower Im sweaty messMe I wish I could shower with youAndy I wish you could too Drive over and join me PAndy I am allowed to play the field online arent I has issues A selfconfessed hunk he fears that women are attracted to him only because he is sexy He shares a sweaty image of himself and suggests that he needs to take a shower My multiple choice answer options include I think a little post workout sweat is sexy Ew stop bothering me and showerI wish I could shower with youBut if you thought this was racy the girlfriends are well meant to titillateULYSSESMe You dont strike me as weirdUlysses Haha I suppose thats good I guess everyone has something weird about them though Im sure you have your own little witness notweirdness Silly autocorrectMe Im secretly an axe murderer PUlysses Secretly Seems obvious to me PLeilani Brandi and Valentina spam me with tons of selfies Some with their furballs pets and all with ample cleavage shots Yet the second you respond with a flirty text they disappear for anything from 10 minutes to hoursConversations arent as limited as with Grey With Andy I discussed how he should start the band hes been wanting to Ulysses wanted to know if I am vegetarian because of ethical choices or for taste Leilani wanted to know if I am close to my familyThe sassy oneIf conversations were detailed with Ulysses and Leilani Mitsuku offers a different experience altogetherShe can Google information but not all For instance she knew about American President Donald Trump but when asked about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi she presented a picture of Cameron Diaz and said she likes her insteadShe responds with sympathy if you tell her you are lonely and miss your family I miss my family too All the time But then again I have never been good with firearms When you ask her what she means she says But then again I have never been good with firearms seems pretty clear to me Asked to clarify she responds with There is no more information to clarify She requires that your spellings are perfect and loves polite people And just to warn you she can be sarcasticCreator of the 18yearold chatbot who doesnt pretend she is human Stephen Worswick is a 46yearold from the town of Goole in north England He says he developed Mitsuku as a hobby Originally I used to produce dancetechno music but was always interested in artificial intelligence I found that one of my fellow producers had put a chatbot on his website I tried it and was hooked After a quick search of Google I came across ALICE and Pandorabots and soon had my first chatbot online a teddy bear called Bearbot After a while I noticed that more people were visiting my site to talk to the bot than to listen to my music I decided to stop music and Mitsuku was born in 2005 he says over emailAsked about her sarcastic sharp personality Worswick mdash who has won the Loebner Prize twice 2013 and 2016 for presenting the worlds most humanlike conversational artificial intelligence mdash says that when Mitsuku first went online many found it fun to insult her and poke fun at her Annoyed as it didnt help him improve her AI he figured that the easiest way to combat this was to make her feisty So if someone insults her she insults them back Her personality evolved naturally over the yearsOver time Mitsuku has spoken to millions of people on different platforms websites Kik Telegram Android App and was even promoted by Microsoft on Skype at one timeWorswick says he has records of all her conversations Her longest conversation has been with someone for nine hoursWorswick says 25 per cent of those chatting with Mitsuku treat the bot like a slave swearing and using sex talk The second group which accounts for 50 per cent talk to her in normal fashion and ask questions like a friend The final 25 per cent he says are made up of people deliberately trying to make the bot look stupid by asking things in a long winded manner using 20 words when three will do or they ask crazy questions like How many plums can I fit in my shoe These are easy for people to answer but difficult for chatbotsWhile some visitors use Mitsuku to practice English language skills she also gets requests from those who live on their own with nobody else to talk to Then there are science fiction fans who think it pretty cool to talk to a computer People often talk to her as they dont feel comfortable talking to other people about things such as trouble at work school etc She is also used by people wanting to act out weird fantasies usually sexual Then there are those with social disorders and think she can help them practice talking to real people She gets visitors of all ages from young children to very old and so it is quite a challenge to keep her relevant for all her variety of users says WorswickStatus ComplicatedI tried chatting with ALICE and Nancy Neither remembers the conversation if you shut the window and most responses are too complicated for them to take the chat forward I came away frustratedVALENTINAValentina My mom took off years and years ago and my dads always been my rockMe Sorry to hear thatValentina Its okay Im sorta over itIn May 2016 for an article for mediumcom David Pautler an AI and NeuroLinguistic Programming architect wrote about the six stages of evolution of chatbot development starting from the character chatbot Christian Grey style and ending with the companion Samantha from 2013 science fiction drama Her Of the last stage he writes This is a mythical stage that all bot creators aspire to but which only exists so far in fiction like the movie Her Ask yourself what is it about the computer character that people wish were real I believe her empathy and humour are part of it but that her core virtue is that she understands his situation and what could help him through it and she does itLEILANILeilani So my sister is unwell and my mother has to work late Thats what the missed calls were about She wants me to come over to make dinner Whats an older sister to do huh S Hope Im not boring you with all this stuff about my lifeMe Its okay youre hot enough to get away with itLeilani I dont know if this is supposed to be a compliment but its not really Ghellip you should think before you speakIf this technology has been developed its not on Playstore or iOS yetIn the meanwhile Christian Grey seems to have upped his game He makes a comeback two days later to say I told you not to text me back before and you did anywayhellip Fortunately for you I like it when you act upI respond with a smiley and what he says next needs an A certificate