Shortly after the start of his campaign during the 2012 Mexican presidential election, then-candidate Enrique Peña Nieto…
Bots are tools, designed by people and organizations to automate processes and enable them to do something technically, socially, politically, or economically.
Most of the bots that I have built have been in the pursuit of laziness. I have built bots to…
In the past, the bots I’ve made have primarily been a tool for exploring systems and culture. I feed the bot data or…
I am a poet and artist, and I make Twitter bots. The term “bot” encompasses many different kinds of software agents, from conversation simulators like Eliza, to programs that write stories about sports events without human intervention, to…
“Algorithms aren’t wizardry.”
It’s been a popular statement to make in academic circles. And it’s well…