Amazing, and continually becoming more human-like each day.

In the recent publicity over the (now cancelled) Twitter purchase they claimed to have only 5% bot accounts. With a stated 217 million users, that means over 10 million accounts are not real people, but in most cases post as if they were. I don't think they publish the number of posts by these accounts but I am guessing they are many times more active than the regular poster.

How easy it is to sway public opinion when so many of the posts are driven by a political or monetary agenda.

Dorian, are you a "bot"? 

AI is a double edged sword. It is now being used by some call centres to alter voices sho that you or I can more easily understand them. Have a look at the Risks Digest   specifically the link in this short article. I've been a subscriber to Risks for over 25 years and AI is in the frame quite a lot as is Machine Learning.

-- Edited by markf on Sunday 28th of August 2022 02:07:48 PM

Some of those working with AI have admitted that they don't know what they are creating and how far AI will take itself. Some have used the word scary. Already cases of AI doing things they have never been programed to do and were never expected to do, but they did it, themselves.