The questions below are the ones that actually come up on a first call. Ask your own or pick one, and you get the answer you'd get from me, in the same words — so you can work out whether it's worth thirty minutes before spending them.
This is a prototype. If I've already written an answer, you get my words. If I haven't, a model answers from my published papers and says so — it is an assistant reading my work, not me.
Or pick one
Pick a question
Choose one of the questions above and the answer appears here.
What answers what
Twelve common questions have answers Rob wrote himself, and those are shown verbatim. Anything else goes to a model that has been given his published papers, and the answer is labeled as generated.
What it will not do
It is told never to invent specifics about his experience, patents, clients, rates, or availability. Asked something the papers do not cover, it says so and points you to him rather than guessing.
It is not Rob
Ask it directly and it will tell you it is an assistant reading his work. Anything it says is worth confirming with him before you rely on it.
What it has read
Eight open-access papers in full, plus abstracts for all 28 of his indexed publications. Five papers are behind publisher paywalls and are represented only by their abstracts.
The audio is synthetic
Curated answers can be played in a voice cloned from a recording of Rob. The words are his, written and approved in advance, but no clip on this page is a recording of him speaking. Model-generated answers use your browser's own voice instead, so the two are never confused.
Still a prototype
Not linked from robschaut.com and not indexed. If something here is wrong or reads badly, that is exactly what this sandbox is for — email him.