A new chatbot called ChatTJB has been making waves in San Francisco after advertising itself as the "leading chat interface powered by AI," but users discovered the artificial intelligence is actually one man named Tucker Bryant. In ChatTJB's world, "AI" stands for "average individual." Bryant, an artist, Stanford grad and former Google employee, personally reads and responds to every question submitted through the chatbot-style website. The tongue-in-cheek project is advertised on a $6,000 San Francisco billboard that went up in late July, launched as a commentary on society's automatic reliance on artificial intelligence. Bryant said on Instagram he has been speaking to an average of about 1,000 people a day about topics like dinner and home paint colors. The goal was to recreate the sleek look of a chatbot but deliver "a really average or bad experience," so users might think twice before accepting chatbot answers, Bryant told Futurism. After photos of the billboard went viral, requests exploded from a few dozen to thousands, at one point reportedly receiving some 5,000 per hour. To date, ChatTJB has reportedly gotten more than 30,000 questions. "I was answering all of those," he told Futurism. The website explains: "you ask a question, and a person named Tucker reads it, thinks about it, and writes back when awake and motivated." Bryant is now asking other "average individuals" to help as he hopes to turn ChatTJB into a