Agent Ruby Essay

Agent Ruby is an interactive program, which would collect information from users around the world, developing and functioning as a result of human input. I choose this artwork because it caught my attention to talk to a computer program. Before I started finding information about the artist who made this artwork, I wanted to interact with Agent Ruby to see how it really feels to talk and express myself to something that is not a human being. There are moments in life that you just need a break, to figure everything out or just disconnect with all the problems that are going trough your mind and enjoy your own company. Agent ruby generated dialectic, a potent tension between human and computer, symbolic and imaginary, real and virtual. At times intelligent and precise, at other times
Social networks are becoming very dominant in the way we communicate. For example, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook are the social medias that I use to communicate and interact with my family and friends. It’s awesome to have social media in our lives, but it can also distract us from being blind to everything else is going on. My native language is Spanish. I came with the idea to start communicating with Agent Ruby in Spanish to see if she can respond me in Spanish too. At first, she was answering in Spanish but when the conversation got a more complex she started to communicate in English. I feel is easier to interact with Agent Ruby than interacting with humans. In my experience with Agent Ruby I felt that I was talking to someone that I don’t know but I really trusted and in other occasions, I felt that I was talking to myself. On the other hand, when I’m interacting and doing activities on the Internet with friends and people that I don’t know that well it feels different because the Internet is so big and powerful that for me, it is a substitute for