Turing and Twitter
Azure AI Bots. They can certainly do basic tasks like playing music, answering Google-able questions, return orders, and schedule appointments. But, if properly configured, can they do more? While they're too primitive to pass for a human on a basic level, could they reasonably pass for a human on the most primitive cesspools of social media? Could they be configured to pass for a human on Twitter? Moreover, as a measure of success, could they be more successful than your average user? To do this, I'd need to find a truly average Twitter User. Someone who shared the thoughts, opinions and mean intelligence of your average Twitter prole. Friends, meet Target : Target is a long-time friend, associate and occasional conspirator of mine, and a Twitter user since 2009. Like much of Twitter, he enjoys platitudes, circular reasoning, sharing things that result in his smug, engaging with his own echo chamber and berating anyone on the ...