Les Discourses: Converse with your Favorite Thinkers
I wanted to create a tool designed to have conversations with thinkers I admire - what would Camus think about my philosophical qualm? How would Steve Jobs design this experience? How would Eleanor Roosevelt respond?
Powered by ChatGPT, I built “Les discourses” so users can speak to their favorite thinkers, ask questions and get answers leveraging the thinker's key quotes and texts. To build this, I used Figma, HTML, CSS, and Python.
My original inspiration was a talk Steve Jobs gave in 1983 at the International Design Conference in Aspen, where he said:
"The problem was, you can’t ask Aristotle a question. And I think as we look at the next 50 to 100 years, if we really can come up with these machines that can capture an underlying spirit, or underlying set of principles, or any underlying way of looking at the world, then when the next Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines with him his whole life, his or her whole life, and types in all this stuff, then maybe someday after the person’s dead and gone, we can ask this machine, ‘Hey, what would Aristotle have said? What about this?’ And maybe we won’t get the right answer. But maybe we will. And that’s really exciting to me, and that’s one of the reasons I’m doing what I’m doing.”
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