"Nathan" is a back-and-forth conversation chat-and-video-bot on the CDC website. It talks with users about
cancer in an easy, simple talking style, and answers PCa-related questions that the user selects from onscreen popup menus.
The graphics and vocals of it are good, though maybe not great, and while the conversation is pretty much limited to only the very basics of PCa, it seems good for what it was obviously meant to do: to get out the basics to searchers who come across the bot at the beginning of their PCa journeys.
Accessing the bot on the CDC site is easy, It loads quickly, doesn't seem to have any bugs in it, and seems safe to access, being on the CDC site. My own experience trying it out had no problems.
Again, knowledge-wise, everyone here will be beyond the very basic PCa-information that this bot communicates, but as teaching bots go, it will probably do a good job of providing basic PCa knowledge to those who come across it.
It's probably a good example of current interactive video chatbot technology, and since it's PCa-specific, probably something at least worth our attention, especially since the CDC is behind it.
To access and run, click on the link below and follow a few simple steps.
Again, it's worth a look just to see where the technology is at nowadays for running a PCa-specific interactive video chatbot.
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/