AI Carrie Bradshaw isn't for the Weak: An Interview with Single & Fabulous BRATshaw

Hey folks, 

“What more does this girl have to say” cripples into my ears as I start typing ‘hey’ for the last time... Heard it right, one last time. So let’s make this one worth it. 

You never thought you'd see this day but here I'm telling you I've just interviewed Carrie Bradshaw. You know the woman who is literally the theme of my blog. Well, don't get carried away, she is not real and she doesn't know that I'm obsessed with her. Yet. 

For my last task I’m, once again, talking about AI but this time I’ll be criticizing my own interaction with it. I don’t use AI in my daily life or, may I call it, my professional life. Some of my friends use it frequently, sometimes to get feedback about homework, sometimes to discuss their love lives and most of the time they use it like a search tool. For myself I can’t and to be honest I don’t want to integrate AI into my life. When it first came out I used it to generate a cat watching Sex and the City image and I’ll admit I nibbled around Character.ai too. Outside of that, I use some applications that use AI as a tool such as Duolingo, Grammarly (I want to point out that it’s just to check my grammar), Twitter etc. But I’ve never had a full conversation with it. Until now, I did my interview with Carrie through Magic School’s character AI tool. 

It was a relatively easy process, I told the chatbot the character of my choice and it started acting and answering every question like my character. Even the questions unrelated to our interview, kind of creepy I know. After our interview with Carrie (AI, I mean), I wrote a report about the interaction and her character in the TV series. This time, I sent this report to Magic School's writing feedback tool. There were different criteria the bot needed such as the topic of my report and the grading scale of it. After filling in those parts I got a cruel feedback. I'm exaggerating because I'm a dramatic person. It gave me four different points that I had to fix before turning my report in. Using this feedback, I rewrote my report and added that to my file which I created by using the Google Documents app I discovered while writing my shared documents blog post. Check it out if you haven't already. I added the feedback the AI bot gave me so you guys can see the difference it made in my writing. It was, to be honest, scary having such quick and unfiltered feedback. Nevertheless, I enjoyed seeing how my writing changed but I don't know if I'd use it again because I enjoy sending my writing to my friends and bugging them until they read it much more. 

Check out the interview, report, fixed report and AI’s feedback all in one file! Click here. No, sorry here. Okay it's here I promise. Right here.

This blog was the highlight of my 2nd year in university. I'm very grateful for Instructional Technologies and Material Design in English

Language Teaching (such a short title I know) class and Dr. Gökçe Kurt. I want to keep sharing posts over the summer so let me know if you'd read it or not. Have a great day/night/afternoon/midnight okay I’m stalling. I don't want this to end.

Goodbye.

Much love,

Aliye Akdağ.

Here is a picture from our interview because I'm delusional like that!