Thursday, September 29, 2016

A whole new way to make a living

I am not good at Twitter, but I find it extremely interesting, and it strikes me that smart young scholars can maybe make a killing there (in the economic sense of the word only, of course).

For example, I recently learned about the following two twitter bots:

First: Pentametron (https://twitter.com/pentametron), a bot that searches Twitter for tweets that are (accidentally?) in Iambic Pentameter, and retweets them.

Second: DeepDrumpf (https://twitter.com/DeepDrumpf), a bot that uses techniques from human language processing to produce Trump-like tweets by training a machine on things Trump has really tweeted.
Just think about what it would require to do either of these tasks - and then how such skills could be 'monetized'....

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