Botnick, the predictive writer, will leave you speechless
Credit: Kidsday staff artist / Olivia Osbourne, Wheatley Heights
The sea under the sea under the sea got no time to spare. Just keep going bonkers. Just keep going out in the storm, snowman. John Henry is a map.
What is this? This is a piece of text that was generated by Botnik (botnik.org).
Botnik is a predictive writer that analyzes text you put in it. The website analyzes word combinations to predict what word might come after the word you put in. The Botnik keyboard is like the cellphone keys that prompt words. So if you choose the word “the,” the Botnik keyboard would give you some of the words that came after the word “the” in the piece of text you choose to use. You can upload a document yourself or choose a text to use on the Botnik website.
It has different features you can use, such as Voicebox, which is a keyboard for remixing language. When you type something in, it offers word suggestions.
Botnik was created by comedy writer Jamie Brew, the former head writer of The Onion’s site ClickHole, and Robert Mankoff, who was the cartoon editor of The New Yorker magazine from 1997 to 2017, according to Wired.com.
