This artwork presents an intelligent chatbot called Wander. This work used knowledge-based story generation to facilitate a narrative AI chatbot on daily communication platforms, producing interactive fiction with the most accessible natural language input: text messages. On social media platforms such as Discord and WeChat, Wander can generate a science-fiction style travelogue about the future
... [Show full abstract] earth, including text, images and global coordinates (GPS) based on real-world locations (e.g. Paris). The journeys are visualised in real-time on an interactive map that can be updated with participants’ data. Based on Viktor Shklovsky’s defamiliarization technique, we present how an AI agent can become a storyteller through common messages in daily life and lead participants to see the world from new perspectives. The website of this work is: https://wander001.com/
