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Stephen Downes

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Although the big news this week has been Meta's decision to kill fact-checking, the more significant news may be the revival of a plan to "to roll out interactive AI agents created by users that other folks can interact with." Or maybe other bots will interact with them; it doesn't really matter. "It's going to be interesting to see how convinced the financial community is on this – whether having people interact with bots counts as real engagement likely to prop up advertising spend." I think AI is great, but I think it's still a long way from having the sort of 'presence' that would make be care what it learns or feels or whatnot. Image: Facebook.

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