Ooh, this is brilliant:
Tired of arguing with climate change deniers in 140 character quips, the programmer wrote a script to do it for him. Chatbot @AI_AGW scans Twitter every five minutes searching for hundreds of phrases that fit the usual denier argument paradigm. Then it serves them up some science.
Those responses are pulled from a database of hundreds of responses that the software matches up to the argument made by the original tweeter. Those who claim the entire solar system is warming are met with something like: “Sun’s output has barely changed since 1970 & is irrelevant to recent global warming” followed by a link to corresponding scientific research.People on the other end of an argument don’t usually pick up on the fact that they are arguing with a program and will continue the argument. And AI_AGW continues to fire back responses. Even when the tweeter keeps throwing the same argument at the chatbot, it will respond with a variety of different arguments and links.
Judd
Kevin
Kevin T. Keith
leanleft
tgirsch
It’s as if someone took my perverse “FredBot” idea and instead put that evil to good use!
So, we have proof that agw denialists routinely fail the Turing Test?
By the way, what the fuck is your new picture?
All I can think of is the Southpark episode where Stan’s profile takes over his facebook account and sucks him into the computer. Like Tron.
And I believe that’s Picasso, but I’m not sure.
Dan
I hadn’t thought about it that way, but you are correct
Barbie is close, the painting is the center section of Sunset at Lavcourt(sp?) by Monet. I like impressionists
Excuse my bad pronoun aim. I meant to ask TG what the hell fish new profile pic was.
um…. s/fish/his/ okay, time to put down the keyboard and walk away.
Dan M:
It’s a Shrek-ified version of me.