Chat with The Willow Sage

Through this page you can engage in an interactive text conversation with a specially formed ChatGPT assistant we've created, called the Willow Sage. The assistant has access to all the text documents in The Willow Community Digital Archive, stored as a private cache to keep it ring-fenced from the more general Large Language Model (LLM) which is at the centre of the ChatGPT Assistant. The private cache forms the context which the assistant uses to response to the text entered by a user. Further, the assistant has been oriented towards rekindling the nostalgia that many of the patrons to The Willow retain to this day.

We think this also happens to make for a fun way for those who haven’t heard about The Willow before to engage in learning about what the venue represented—and for those engaging with this ChatGPT assistant who have spent some time there, who knows, the conversation may even stir up some additional memories they had forgotten about!