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I converted my list of butler/assistant names I use for computes into a JSON format and added assumed gender details. Hopefully people can start being more creative and less gender biased when choosing what they name their AI butlers.
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[{ | |
name : "Butler", | |
gender : "M", | |
purpose : ["laptop name"], | |
source : ["Artemis Fowl"], | |
altNames : ["Domovoi", "Domovoi Butler"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Jarvis", | |
gender : "M", | |
purpose : ["local code storage/repo"], | |
source : ["Iron Man"], | |
altNames : ["Just A Rather Very Intelligent System", "J.A.R.V.I.S.", "JARVIS"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Friday", | |
gender : "M", | |
source : ["Friday by Robert A Heinlein", "Robinson Crusoe", "Iron Man"], | |
altNames : ["F.R.I.D.A.Y.", "FRIDAY", "Girl Friday"], | |
notes : "Friday appears to be a male name in modern culture except when referred to as an assistant" | |
}, { | |
name : "Jocasta", | |
gender : "M", | |
purpose : ["singularity"], | |
source : ["Ultron Comics", "Iron Man"], | |
notes : "Jocasta is a female in the Ultron series, but appears to be a male name in modern culture." | |
}, { | |
name : "Homer", | |
gender : "M", | |
source : ["Iron Man"], | |
altNames : ["Heuristically Operative Matrix Emulation Rostrum", "H.O.M.E.R.", "HOMER"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Plato", | |
gender : "M", | |
source : ["Iron Man"], | |
altNames : ["Piezo-Electrical Logistic Analytical Tactical Operator", "P.L.A.T.O.", "PLATO"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Virgil", | |
gender : "M", | |
source : ["Iron Man"], | |
altNames : ["Virtual Integrated Rapidly-evolving Grid-based Intelligent Lifeform", "V.I.R.G.I.L.", "VIRGIL"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Regis", | |
gender : "M", | |
purpose : ["smartHAus controller"], | |
source : ["Masque"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Pepper", | |
gender : "F", | |
source : ["Tony Stark's personal assistant in Iron Man, who later came to run Stark Industries directly as CEO."], | |
altNames : ["Pepper Potts", "Virginia", "Potts"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Nigel", | |
gender : "M" | |
}, { | |
name : "Cortana", | |
gender : "F", | |
source : ["The assistant ai in Halo, later the voice assistant in Microsoft's products."] | |
}, { | |
name : "Alfred", | |
gender : "M", | |
source : ["Batman"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Jeeves", | |
gender : "M", | |
purpose : ["network router"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Desmond", | |
gender : "M", | |
purpose : ["firewall"] | |
}, { | |
name : "James", | |
gender : "M" | |
}, { | |
name : "Lurch", | |
gender : "M", | |
purpose : ["door camera"], | |
source : ["Adams Family"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Reginald", | |
gender : "M" | |
}, { | |
name : "Jewels", | |
gender : "F/M", | |
note : "The name was predominately male thru the early 1900s, but has been overtaken as female in 1990's. Most people over 30 (as of 2016) are male. (wolframalpha)" | |
}, { | |
name : "Niles", | |
gender : "M" | |
}, { | |
name : "Jules", | |
gender : "F/M", | |
note : "Not to be confused with Jewels, this name has a relatively stable ratio of 6/1 male female thru history. (wolframalpha)" | |
}, { | |
name : "Ada", | |
gender : "F", | |
purpose : ["digital whiteboard"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Max", | |
gender : "M", | |
note : "This name has a small portion of female usage, but its at a rate of 1/300 in 2016. (wolframalpha)" | |
}, { | |
name : "Abbot", | |
gender : "M" | |
}, { | |
name : "Astro", | |
gender : "M" | |
}, { | |
name : "Rosie", | |
gender : "F", | |
purpose : ["cleanup routine", "roomba", "automatic dishwashing machine"], | |
source : ["The Jetsons"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Alice", | |
gender : "F", | |
source : ["Early AI chatbot experiment."], | |
altNames : ["The Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity", "A.L.I.C.E.", "ALICE"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Watson", | |
gender : "M", | |
purpose : ["Fitbit"], | |
source : ["Sherlock Holmes"], | |
altNames : ["Dr. Watson"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Frank", | |
gender : "M", | |
purpose : ["smart phone"], | |
source : ["Ze Frank"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Geoffrey", | |
gender : "M", | |
purpose : ["sarcasm detection"], | |
source : ["The fresh prince of Bel Air"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Ross", | |
gender : "M", | |
source : ["AI lawer - http://www.rossintelligence.com/lawyers/"], | |
altNames : ["ROSS"], | |
note : "Also a popular last name, ranking 89th on wolframalpha." | |
}, { | |
name : "Siri", | |
gender : "F", | |
source : ["The name of apple's voice assistant application. Norwegian for 'beautiful woman who leads you to victory' - Dag Kittalaus wanted to call his daughter if he had one."] | |
}, { | |
name : "Alexa", | |
gender : "F", | |
source : ["Amazon's digital assistant from the 'Echo'. Can also be changed to 'Amazon' or 'Echo'."] | |
}, { | |
name : "Glass", | |
gender : "?", | |
source : ["Google's 'glass' headware could respond to this name. Also known as 'Ok, Google' on mobile"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Samantha", | |
gender : "F", | |
source : ["The popular movie about an AI assistant 'Her'"] | |
}, { | |
name : "Tay", | |
gender : "F", | |
source : ["A chatBot experiment by Microsoft that hit big in pop-culture's imagination. The name is possibly a nod to the character in @SwiftOnSecurity's twitter fiction."], | |
altNames : ["TayAI"] | |
} | |
] |
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