About BiBot

The very specific responses BiBot understands. Please copy and paste them in to the bar that says “lets talk…press enter”. Then press enter to hear what BiBot has to say about your issue. This program is best accessed through the Chrome browser.

About this project:

I am a doctoral student currently working on a computer science dissertation. I am also a newbie coder who is taking SheCodes classes and looking at a bunch of tutorials and places where people share code online. Also, I’m bi. A few classes back I was in an artificial intelligence class and wrote a final project entitled “Artificial Intelligence for Bisexual Lives and Identities.”

The abstract of my work was “The work presents a document to train or code a BiBot, a bisexual chatbot, with resources for Bisexuals living in the United States. Bisexuals are the largest non-heterosexual orientation. Despite being the orientation with the largest share of people, bisexuals are either overlooked or lumped together with gay and lesbian populations. While there is some overlap with the gay and lesbian experience, bisexuals have their unique minority stressors. This work utilized both qualitative and quantitative research to pinpoint those issues to make the training or coding document. Many bisexuals feel like they are facing the unique minority stressors on their own, which is problematic and isolating for many. There are two goals of this AI. The first is to promote bivisibility, which is being bi and out, open, and proud. The second is to fight bi-erasure, which is when bisexuality is when people treat bisexuality like it is not a real and legitimate identity or deny that bisexuality even exists. The result of this research and the creations of BiBot is a way for bisexuals not to feel alone, invisible, and know that they have a valid identity.”

I did not code this bot from scratch. When the AI class ended, I came across a YouTube video from Heri Kaniugu. The description of the video has a link to a simple chatbot. I downloaded the code and applied my budding HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge. I would in time like to make BiBot smarter, so you don’t have to just paste in specific inputs. I would also like BiBot to be able to locate resources nearby. However, this is a start.