1st year boys Finn O’Kelly and Mark Mulvey Winners of the SciFest Junior Technology Section, DIT

Our congratulations to Mark and Finn on winning a tough competition with their ingenious project. Their topic was: ‘Is it possible to have an Artificial Intelligence Friend?’

To test the idea that computers could become your friend, Finn and Mark built a chatbot using a programming language called Javascipt. They evaluated the chatbot and found that indeed the vast majority of people thought that the computer could become your friend.