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Key Takeaways Former Google project manager Tucker Bryant recently decided to create ChatTJB, a chatbot that relies on human beings for answers instead of artificial intelligence.
The project started in April with him manually answering queries.
Now Bryant has paused ChatTJB in response to an unprecedented surge in traffic.
The trendiest new AI chatbot is just 10,000 human volunteers manually answering your questions.
Former Google project manager Tucker Bryant recently created an AI chatbot called ChatTJB that doesn’t use AI at all. Instead, the AI stands for “Average Individual.”
The project started in April with him on the other side of the screen, manually answering questions. ChatTJB looked uncannily like the AI assistants Silicon Valley has poured trillions of dollars into building. A user typed a question into a plain chat box, waited a moment and got a response.
The project exploded after Bryant spent $6,000 on a San Francisco billboard promoting ChatTJB in late July. Since it went up, the site has received more than 100,000 prompts, he told Fortune, while the volunteer list has been growing by about 1,000 names a day. At the time of writing, Bryant has paused ChatTJB in response to the surge in traffic.
The project is notable because instead of machines replacing people, people are lining up to act like machines.
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