Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense - https://www.technologyreview.com/blog...
"The result is the Twitter chatbot @AI_AGW. Its operation is fairly simple: Every five minutes, it searches twitter for several hundred set phrases that tend to correspond to any of the usual tired arguments about how global warming isn't happening or humans aren't responsible for it. It then spits back at the twitterer who made that argument a canned response culled from a database of hundreds. The responses are matched to the argument in question -- tweets about how Neptune is warming just like the earth, for example, are met with the appropriate links to scientific sources explaining why that hardly constitutes evidence that the source of global warming on earth is a warming sun." - Paul Buchheit
"In a way, what Leck has created is a pro-active search engine: it answers twitter users who aren't even aware of their own ignorance." - Simon
Very funny. - Sue - Friendfeed is best
Let's restrict the mindless dogmatic arguing to rival chatbots running in a sandbox... The rest of the Web will feel so much better ! - Jean-Marc Liotier