I really enjoyed reading the article, because I really like the style, and for most it really opened up my eyes. I think I mostly agree with what it is saying about the features of interactivity, that it has to “listen, think, and speak”, although it made me think of the question, whether this makes AI interactive or not. AI has all three of these features, but I personally wouldn’t put it into the same category as an interactive website, for example. I recognise, that it is a two-way communication, like one between two humans, but it feels like a midpoint between a human interaction and a website. I think, and I might be wrong because I am not entirely educated in this, but a website has more limitations than an AI in regard to their “speaking” or response to the interaction, but a human one is far more natural, AI is just statistically choosing the next best word. The article just made me think of interactivity as a scale, where I was trying to place AI according to my best knowledge.
This ended in me thinking of maybe randomness as a feature of a strong interactive system. The article/chapter mentions 3 (listening, thinking and speaking) but I think randomness, or randomisation in an interactive system makes it interesting to keep using it. For example, I could be talking to my friends every day, and we would have a different conversation each time, and so I have the urge to keep talking to them. Maybe randomness is not even the best word to use here. Responsiveness represents my point better, because randomness can become repetitive in cases of a website. For example I made my self-portrait have chnaging clothes to the click of my mouse, but the colours were chosen from a previously set array of colours. It was random yes, but after a while it just repeated the same colours and it became boring quickly. So I would say then, the fact that a system is able to store previous information and “speak” in regard to that, is another feature of a strong interactive system. I also have to agree that design should accomodate interactivity, and a strong interactive system has a design that is able to support that interactivity.
Just because of my nationality, I have to say that I really enjoyed when he mentioned Hungarian. I actually laughed when I saw it, because I really didn’t expect it, but it felt good to know that my language is being used as an example. I even had to send a picture of it to my family.
As for concrete ideas for my sketches, I can’t really say any examples, however I know that I want to move on from simple mouse clicks and try out something that might be more complicated or requires more research beforehand. I know that when last semester I was in CommLab and making my final assignment I was able to store some informations on the website with cookies. I am not sure how, if even this is possible here, but if it is I wouls love to experiment with it.