This comment has been posted by a human being. There will be cake.
If the bot posts (legally) objectionable material, I'm guessing it's not the bot that goes to jail.
It's a good strawman, but I wonder where the bots would somehow go to collect and then somehow post such material.
Yeah very true. I also kind of fail to see the utility of the bot beyond a whimsical demo. And there doesn't appear to be much of a real demonstration of it's benefit.
So if my bot gets me a date with a girl, can I bring it along? Why not? What happens when she finds out that I don't speak fluent Farsi?
This has to be one of the creepiest things I've seen in twenty plus years on the net. Just because something is possible to build doesn't mean that you should.
Interesting. It reminds me of human-computer chess teams, a continuation of computer-augmented humanity.
I set up an acct on Twitter with a bot. How long before it starts tweeting anything? And can the activity level be changed?
Two words: Turing test.
It already fooled a friend of mine with a tweet at him. But if it were a human I would think it has incredibly bad taste in articles.
Well that's Twitter. It's easy to sound like a human in 140 characters.
I agree. Posting links to Twitter is one thing, having discussions in Facebook comments with your friends quite another.
two minutes in, it tried to re-open a dead conversation from a week ago and argue with the other twitter user.
Starting a pointless argument on the Internet? Sounds like it's doing a smashing job at mimicking the average Internet user. It could get worse if it uses YouTube comments as a training set!