i, Chatbot

As a student journalist James was nominated for a BJTC award in 2017 with just one other, amongst thousands of entries. The prize, the most prestigious of the evening, was the Steve Harris Award for Best Original Storytelling. The idea explored the world of ‘chatbots’. Chatbots, ensconced in the broader subject area of artificial intelligence, are messenger bots programmed to talk to you as if you were human. You might have encountered them on Facebook Messenger or Whattsapp in a customer service/advertising role. Digging deeper however, the piece begins to uncover how people are using these intelligent bots, that could uncannily mimic human conversation, for friendship, love, sex and most worryingly…to bring back the dead. Here was James’ first furore into the world of longer form film making. Enjoy.