[kictanet] It’s Not Their Pop Idol, but a Bot. Fans Cheer Anyway. - The New York Times

[kanini mutemi]

See also Sophie Bot- Kenya's own AI.

https://www.afidep.org/?p=6239

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Listers
>
> Welcome to the Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence in the Celeb
> World..
>
> In January, Christina Ausset, a 24-year-old Maroon 5
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/maroon_5/index.html?inline=nyt-org>
>  fan in France, spotted an enticing Twitter post from another of the
> band’s followers: “I just had a conversation with Maroon 5! Awesome!”
>
> The interaction, it turned out, had been conducted on Facebook
> <http://www.nytimes.com/topic/company/facebook-inc?inline=nyt-org>Messenger
> with Maroon 5’s chatbot <https://www.messenger.com/t/maroon5> — an
> automated program designed to respond to basic commands. Not exactly a
> conversation with Adam Levine, Ms. Ausset noted, but it didn’t matter. She
> now happily talks to the bot, too.
>
> Read on:-
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/business/media/its-not-
> their-pop-idol-but-a-bot-fans-cheer-anyway.html?WT.mc_id=
> SmartBriefs-Newsletter&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=smartbriefsnl&_r=0
>
>
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