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Tired of arguing with climate change skeptics? A programmer wrote a chat bot to do it for him

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
November 3, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 09:12
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Tired of hearing the same old arguments and having to try and be interesting in drafting a response?   The Twitter chatbot @AI_AGW is here to help, at least on Twitter.

Every five minutes, it searches twitter for those phrases that correspond to the usual arguments about how global warming isn't happening and then replies to the twitterer with a canned response from a database.

Nigel Leck is the programmer who created it.    Read Chris Mims at Technology Review for the details.  

It does a pretty good job, too.  Some of the arguments have gone on for days.

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