# Using Google Colab to Build an AI Chatbot from Facebook Chat Data

DevFeed: [Using Google Colab to Build an AI Chatbot from Facebook Chat Data](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/we-live-in-a-science-fiction-universe-after-all-28195.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/machine_learning/2020/01/23/we-live-in-a-science-fiction-universe-after-all.html>)

Author: Fuzzygroup

Published: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Scott Johnson](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/scott-johnson.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [chat](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chat.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [nlp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nlp.md>)

## AI overview

The author reflects on an AI-based conversational answering machine described in science fiction and notes that a similar system can be built with Google Colab using Facebook Chat data. The post expresses personal interest in experimenting with the idea.

## Source excerpt

A number of years ago, the late Charles Sheffield had a book titled, I think "Dark as Day", which had as a feature a "fax" which was an AI based psuedo answering machine that you could chat with when the person you wanted wasn't available: MORD: the idiosyncratic high-level Fax of the late Mordecai Perlman. e-reading.club More... And today I read via Hacker News that I can build this using Google CoLab (article / discussion) based on my Facebook Chat data. Wow. We really do live in a science fictional universe. I still want my flying car tho. Note: I don't have a ton to say about this but I find the prospect fascinating and something I want to play with hence the blog post.