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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.
[{
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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