The Robot Cabaret event needed to generate debate around bias and trust in Big Data and AI. I created Parry, a superstitious AI that develops it’s own digital fortune-telling beliefs.
Parry told the fortunes of the whole audience, sorted them into personality types, and an unexpected correlation between the date of it’s creation and a number freely created by the audience suggested that Parry’s fortune-telling system is strangely accurate.
Parry is a fascinating, entertaining, often hilarious interactive experience that subtly parodies the real dangers of magical thinking in technology.