Totally. Also, to see more evidence of these interactions, see the last several flash crashes in the US stock markets. What's happening in several of those situations is algos from competing brokerages producing extreme unexpected results. Market crashes, pull the plug, fix the algo or introduce some "rule". Rules being, IMO often just a band-aid for not fixing the code and admitting it was technology that ran away from them. On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 08:14:57 +0100 Tom <tom@vondein.org> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 03:51:36AM +0000, Cubed wrote:
What we see here is the first signs of singularity. Before long, these propaganda articles will be algorithmically written, automatically published, and will start to interact with each in ways we could never have predicted resulting in outcomes outside of the scope of our imaginations.
Besides, that's already possible: http://clickotron.com/. Article: http://larseidnes.com/2015/10/13/auto-generating-clickbait-with-recurrent-ne....
:)
- Tom