Showing posts with label Manual Systems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manual Systems. Show all posts

Saturday, February 10, 2024

The Experiences of a Human Chatbot (Cooper Technical Bureau. 1962-1965)

In my first job I was employed as graduate level clerk providing what could be considered to be a human "chatbot" service to technical management in a research organization (The Cooper Technical Bureau) of an international company (Cooper. MacDougal & Robertson, later part of the Wellcome Foundation). The information department acted as a combined library and mail room for technical correspondence and my job, as a member of a small team, was to ensure that management (both in the UK and overseas) were fully informed of issues which could affect the development of the veterinary and insecticidal products that we sold worldwide. As such I was taking information from manually indexed text documents and providing summary repost and answers to question. I was also involved in integrating new information into the existing paper archives.

Draw an office with the far wall being a large window through which can clearly be seen two or three ostriches in an African savannah landscape. In the office a man is sitting at a desk writing, with a small pile of papers beside him. On the other side of the office there is a four-draw filing cabinet and nooks in a bookcase.

Draw an office with the far wall being a large window through which can clearly be seen two or three ostriches in an African savannah landscape. In the office a man is sitting at a desk writing, with a small pile of papers beside him. On the other side of the office there is a four-draw filing cabinet and books in a bookcase.