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Twitter as Turing Test

Dennis D. McDonald
Artificial Intelligence, Turing,
While walking the dog this morning I listened to the Scientific American Science Talk podcast for September 26 where psychologist Robert Epstein talked about being fooled by one of the many automated “chatterbots” that exist on the Web as artificial intelligence demonstrators. The interview made me think about Twitter and the disjointed nature of some of the “conversations” one can follow online via that service.

McDonald's Rules of Personal Connection Behavior

Dennis D. McDonald
Fatigue, , ,
Members of the Social Media Collective are blogging about Twitter. To see what I mean, go to the Collective’s front page and search for “twitter” or use this Social Media Collective Search Engine I set up using Google’s custom search service. (I’ve already blogged about the topic here.) This Twitter discussion got me to thinking about the decisions we make about connecting with others during the day.