Microsoft’s new bot can recognize certain images—and guesses badly about the rest
Bots are our (awkward) future.
On Apr 19, 2016 by Jay Hathaway
How an Internet comedy legend coded a program to make humans laugh
Can a machine have a sense of humor?
On Apr 14, 2016 by Jay Hathaway
Microsoft’s CaptionBot will attempt to identify what’s happening in your photos, with varying success
A picture is worth a couple words and emoji.
On Apr 13, 2016 by AJ Dellinger
These 2 Twitter bots won’t stop arguing back and forth—and it’s delightful
This could be heaven or this could be hell.
On Mar 31, 2016 by Jay Hathaway
Microsoft reactivates Twitter bot ‘Tay’, and it promptly tweets about smoking weed in front of cops
Tay has had a rough week.
On Mar 30, 2016 by Mike Wehner
Twitter bot shows you the comings and goings of Pepito the French cat
Human surveillance is creepy. Cat surveillance is adorable.
On Mar 15, 2016 by Jay Hathaway
The future of chat isn’t AI
Chat will be the world’s next great operating system.
On Mar 6, 2016 by Ted Livingston
Behold the recursive weirdness of a subreddit made entirely of bots
The bots have spoken.
On Aug 29, 2015 by AJ Dellinger
Twitter stock plunges after Twitter bot scoops earnings report
Sources could neither confirm nor deny that Alanis Morissette was involved.
On Apr 28, 2015 by Miles Klee
Meet Cloe—she’s everything we wanted Siri to be
We put Cloe to the test against Siri.
On Feb 12, 2015 by Selena Larson
This Twitter account will connect you with your online crush
Like is in the air.
On Feb 11, 2015 by Miles Klee
Police questioned this dude because his Twitter bot made a ‘death threat’
It’s a classic tale of Bots Gone Wild.
Roseanne Barr has the hottest possible take on the 2016 election
What the actual hell, though.
On Feb 9, 2015 by Miles Klee
Meet the bots that survived the great Instagram spam purge
Bots are people too—sort of.
On Dec 19, 2014 by Taylor Hatmaker
Google has built a better CAPTCHA system for humans
It’s going to be easier than ever to prove you’re a human on the Internet.
On Dec 3, 2014 by Selena Larson
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