[Silly Idea] Discovering the interconnection of images

[josephwilk]

Thank you for this bot! I'm really enjoying discovering art with it. Its interesting how communicating with a bot feels very different to just searching via a website. Something more human, I don't want to spam a bot with requests while I'll hit search like mad. Its makes the results feel a bit more special and forces me to think a little on funny search times to see what surprises I find.

I also really liked the idea that the bot during development got stuck in a recursive conversation with itself. It makes me think of a group of bots all communicating with each other responding to each others search of art achieves. I was also thinking on how to reveal the interconnection of the content/images of the archive. Something like:

• User starts a search with a word.
• Bot gets a result, looks into the textual description or year or any meta data.
• Bot uses text in previous stage to perform another search getting another image.
• User gets multiple image results back in there reply providing a chain of related results.

You could probably get really involved in how you map images to other images. Natural language processing, image processing, machine learning, etc. Rather than a single bot you could also have 3 or 4 running, each responsible for a search. So you end up with a twitter discussion thread showing images and results for your initial search.

I'm sure there are lots of problems and silly things I've not thought of, I've not done much work with twitter bots. Its a silly idea but maybe it will provide a spark or discussion for better ones.

Thanks,