Welcome to a New Way of Learning History!
This website is a pioneering project designed to make history more engaging and accessible. Instead of dry reading or listening to lectures, you can now explore historical events and figures through interactive conversations. Specifically, you’ll engage with their virtual counterparts!
Pilot Project: Nikola Tesla
For this initial project, I chose Nikola Tesla, a Serbian scientist whose inventions earned him global fame. On this site, you can interact with Tesla’s chatbot, designed to provide accurate and informative answers about his life, work, and groundbreaking inventions.
The responses you receive are based on transparent and publicly available information. This allows you to understand how the chatbot operates and why it provides certain answers. The content will be continuously updated – plans include adding Tesla’s letters, interviews, and speeches so that, over time, the AI can communicate more authentically in Tesla’s unique style.
A Note on Artificial Intelligence
While technology is constantly advancing, artificial intelligence is not yet perfect. Errors may occur as the system continues to learn and improve. If you notice that the chatbot is providing inaccurate or nonsensical responses, please let me know and provide sources of accurate information so that the errors can be corrected as quickly as possible.
What’s Next?
This project is just the beginning of something bigger. The goal is to develop chatbots for many historical figures, enabling children and adults alike to learn about their lives and achievements in an interactive way. This tool can also be valuable for history teachers as a classroom aid and for anyone who wants to enjoy learning through an innovative and entertaining approach.
Tesla’s chatbot responds in Serbian (using the Ijekavian dialect and Cyrillic script), English, German, and French.
Since Nikola Tesla lived in the late 19th and early 20th century, the vocabulary and writing style used by the chatbot are adapted to that historical period. Tesla spoke Serbian, German, and English fluently, while his knowledge of French was functional but not fluent.
Please respect the character and legacy of Nikola Tesla. The Tesla chatbot responds exclusively to questions related to his life, work, and scientific achievements – up until the year 1943.
Avoid inappropriate, ironic, or provocative questions, as well as topics concerning events that occurred after his death.
Thank you for your understanding.
Support the Project!
If you have suggestions, ideas, or would like to support this project, please feel free to get in touch.
Special thanks to Mr. Milovan Matić for invaluable insights into Tesla’s life, to historian, Second Lieutenant Uroš Jovanović, for essential information about the lives of the Serbian people in the Lika and Serbian Krajina regions, and to Dr. Milena Škobo, project collaborator responsible for language editing, cultural and historical adaptation of content, and contributing to the project’s accessibility to the broader public and academic community.