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c0lo [soylentnews.org] writes:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/04/donald-trump-deep-drumpf-twitter-bot [theguardian.com]

MIT project uses artificial-intelligence algorithm to learn Republican frontrunner’s speech patterns before publishing ‘remarkably Trump-like statements’

Donald Trump may be a “really smart person” by his own estimation, but his speeches are now fuelling a really smart Twitter bot, which uses artificial-intelligence technology to copy the Republican frontrunner.

The quote above comes from “Deep Drumpf” [twitter.com] rather than the real Trump, with the account running on algorithms created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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Conner-Simmons explained how the bot works:

“The bot creates Tweets one letter at a time. For example, if the bot randomly begins its Tweet with the letter ‘M,’ it is somewhat likely to be followed by an ‘A,’ and then a ‘K,’ and so on until the bot types out Trump’s campaign slogan, ‘Make America Great Again.’ It then starts over for the next sentence and repeats the process until it reaches the 140-character limit.

The Tweetbot’s creator, CSAIL postdoc Bradley Hayes, used techniques from ‘deep-learning,’ a field of artificial intelligence that uses systems called ‘neural networks’ to teach computers to to find patterns on their own. Hayes was inspired by an existing training model that can simulate Shakespeare, as well as a recent report that analysed the presidential candidates’ linguistic patterns to find that Trump speaks at a fourth-grade level.”

I'm not quite sure, but did @realDonaldTrump just replied to this one?

** [twitter.com] [Lightweight #LittleMarco] no campaign chance. Believe me, we start winning, winning, winning. That's the mindset.

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