The Register: Facebook pulls plug on language-inventing chatbots? THE TRUTH. “If you thought artificial intelligence was already overhyped to death, this week will have given you a heart attack. On Monday, excitement levels among hacks hit the roof amid claims Facebook had scrambled to shut down its chatbots after they started inventing their own language.” A nice antidote to all the AI hype that’s been floating around.
Yes, the Vine app is being killed off. But don’t worry about the people who started Vine – they’ve got something else going on. “Live-streaming video is a crowded marketplace, with products from the likes of Twitter and Facebook already killing off one early pioneer, Meerkat. But the co-founders of Vine seem undeterred by this (and the recent death of the app they sold to Twitter), and have launched Hype: a video app that turns live-streaming into show-and-tell.”
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