Twitter joins Skynet arms race with terrifying acquisition of Whetlab

Twitter has acquired artificial intelligence start-up Whetlab, probably to assist with what it considers "barriers to consumption" by foisting machine-curated content on unsuspecting tweeters. Confirmed in less than 140 characters, Twitter announced its capture of the machine learning startup on Wednesday (June 17). The …

[Douchus McBagg]

non-profit making messaging service ties in with AI company in attempt to justify another VC cash injection?

heh. machine learning fed on tweets. so much for AI super soldier. maybe AI super teenager...

Uff! so unfair! I hate you! fml!

[Phuq Witt]

Newspeak

"...Our second strategic priority is to reduce barriers to consumption. This is based on our grand revision and our conviction that we can leverage our rich content and machine learning systems to instantly deliver great experiences...."

Ain't it amazing how many ways you can say "more adverts" without saying "more adverts"?

[DubyaG]

Re: Newspeak

And " deliver great experiences...." in 140 characters or less? Yeah, right.

[Mark 85]

Twitter and AI....?

We'll know that AI is mature (for some value of "mature") when it takes a selfie of itself.

[Destroy All Monsters]

Not ANOTHER machine learning startup.

Since "Machine Learning in Action" has come out, all the algorithms from the 80s clearly are getting the startup treatment.

It's just statistics, really. Ok, we now have the data generated by armies of tweeting high-schoolers.