I recently listened to Veronica Belmont’s (from the Mozilla Organization) podcast about how Bots have become part of everyday life when we online. Many of us don’t even know when we are interacting with a bot. I know I certainly didn’t realize how frequently I was in contact with a bot. When you use Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri you are interacting with a bot, bots help maintain Wiki pages, these are examples of helpful bots. But, there are other kinds of bots who are harmful, bots that try to influence political opinions, for example Twitter is challenging and removing 4 million accounts per week that could be political bots.
Listen to Veronica’s podcast it is easy to understand, and interesting.
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on November 12, 2017