News bots:

- Stephen Colbert (jokes + joke explaining) a la Colbert Report
Punchline of the news? Logline
- enthusiastic (but not universally so) optimistically so?
- also, can have it match “tastes” based on peoples’ individual actions (like emoji reactions, etc.)
- advice column bot
- recap bot (top three of the day, week etc.)
- could start with text, but maybe producing images, audio, etc.
- podcast?
- humans talking vs. articles posted
- grumpy old humanist (disdained) vs grumpy young humanist (threatened)
- also stem?
- or just different approaches (seminar vs lecture, etc.)
- optimistic view of the humanities, etc.
- furthermore, specializations within the humanities
- authorial context
- opinion/sentiment shift from 2022-now
- past research/past articles
- how much do they love Elon scale of 1-10

Triggers:

- temporal
- content (conceptual/thematic)
- certain topics
- "AI is pro AI on scal 1-10"
- if article is 7<, then respond
- events
- emojis, modalities

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# hackathon

1) We have two faculty members coming in, working on projects:
- Sarah Craycraft (oral exam project) CAPTURE
- interview portion will also be updated (22nd) VPAL
- Moira Weigel (bot conversation installation) DISPLAY
2) Intergeneration teams + videogames workshops
- game mechanics, vibe coding

CAPTURE
- card capture/paper capture
- automated vision description
- control room model (transcript + cards)
- standalone web app of interview/audio capture

VIDEOGAMES ESSAY BUILDER
- automatic capture from multiple different stations
- "the humanities project of the future"
- deep research of history of written essay as means of assessing student learning

DISPLAY
- bot conversation installation
- adding bots from paper forms, display in next.js, variation in conversations
- BOTS-DISCUSS-THE-NEWS?

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people lol:

- christine, jordan, dani, jungyoon, dongpeng, madeleine, jonah, blue, elisa, moira, sarah, shava
- TBD:
- mary (and vpal friends)
- BGFs
- SCICOM specifically on capture
- LLUFs