Posted on 08/19/2017 4:43:18 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Yokohama government trash-helper app gives poignant philosophical advice to depressed citizens
Scott Wilson
Sometimes help can come from where you least expect it
like, REALLY least expect it.
Throwing away trash in Japan can be a complicated nightmare. Paper, plastic, glass, burnable
all of them and more have their own days to be put out, and if you miss collection day, then you have to keep the ever-growing pile inside of your house until the next pick-up day for that category, which can be up to a month for more obscure types.
To help any confused citizens, the Yokohama City Recycling and Environmental Bureau recently released an app called Iio (pronounced ee-oh), a chatbot that tells you how to deal with certain types of garbage. For example, if you ask it about glass bottles, it would tell you when, where, and how to put them out for collecting.
But things took an interesting turn when people started asking Iio how to deal with unconventional things they wanted to throw away. Take a look:
▼ When I asked the Yokohama City Garbage Collection Bureau about how to
get rid of garbage, it gave me such an accurate answer! (translation below)
横浜市清掃局にゴミの出し方聞いてみたら的確な答えが来てビックリ! https://t.co/Q9iSe8pPh3
マーン🍦ダイエッ
(@MuuMann) August 14, 2017
Iio: Hello, I am Iio.
Iio: If you tell me the name of the garbage you want to get rid of, I can tell you how to get rid of it. For example, if you want to know about fees for oversized garbage, ask me about, for instance, bicycle removal fees.
Me: Husband.
Iio: Really!! The [existential French playwright] Armand Salacrou once said: Marriage is the lack of judgment, divorce the lack of patience, and remarriage the lack of memory. Maybe you should work on improving your patience?
Yeowch! Iio the garbage-helper chatbot is throwing some seriously classy shade right there. Most chatbots usually just spit out Im sorry I didnt understand what you said when the user asks them something out of the ordinary. But Iios programmers went out of their way to give this wand-waving rabbit quite the personality.
Heres some more of Iios responses: (translations below)
おもしろい https://t.co/Ex0oK9t3mp
節子 (@MuuMann) August 14, 2017
Me: Life.
Iio: Do you really want to throw that away? Snoopy once said: If you think about something at three oclock in the morning and then again at noon the next day, you get different answers. Sleep on it today, and then see what you think tomorrow.
@MuuMann FF外から失礼します。お金だとこのような答えが返ってきました。 https://t.co/AvTJcg2wXm
ファビュラスぞんびちゃん (@znbchan) August 15, 2017
Me: Money.
Iio: That might go against the laws dealing with the destruction and damage of currency, so dont throw that out.
@MuuMann https://t.co/hlyZbpi7X1
たまきゅー (@chokutokuumeda) August 15, 2017
Me: My life
Iio: I dont understand your question. Sorry. Either ask something else, or choose one of the items below: 1. Metals, 2. Plastics, 3. Wood, 4. Broken Objects, 5. Paper, 6. Cloth, 7. I Dont Know.
Well it seems as though even Iios seemingly-endless wisdom about life and laws has a limit, but just for fun herere some more of its responses to other questions:
Me: Love.
Iio: The American psychologist Barbara De Angelis once said: You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back love.
Me: Hope.
Iio: In Don Quixote, Cervantes said: It is better to have great hopes than dull riches. You should ask yourself again what your hopes are.
Me: Dreams.
Iio: Martin Luther King Jr. once said: Always make room in your heart for dreams. If youre throwing away a dream to make room for another, then thats okay.
Me: Romance
Iio: The Film Director Woody Allen once said: To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving.
Iios philosophical advice game is on point, having a perfect response for just about everything. Now were just wondering how long it will take before it starts talking about anime and hay fever like Microsofts Japanese A.I. chatbot
.
Sources: Twitter/@MuuMann via My Game News Flash, Yokohama City Recycling and Environmental Bureau (1, 2)
P!
Are each of those symbols a word or a letter of the alphabet?
Thanks T.L.R.
Your posts are always appreciated and this one especially
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
This is why we beat the Japanese in WWII.
Some guy was trying to write a note for the Japanese Admiral saying,
“Look out! They know we’re heading to Midway!”
But by the time he got done with making all those intricate markings, the battle was over.
America....we’ll win because Twitter.
Some are words and some are syllables, none are just letters.
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