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Primer's Sean Gourley on Bots, Propaganda and Fake News - Ep. 83

Primer's Sean Gourley on Bots, Propaganda and Fake News - Ep. 83

FromThe AI Podcast


Primer's Sean Gourley on Bots, Propaganda and Fake News - Ep. 83

FromThe AI Podcast

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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Apr 21, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 2015 today's guest penned an article called "Robot Propaganda" for Wired magazine. It contained this then bold prediction: "we are likely to see versions of these bots deployed on U.S. audiences as part of the 2016 presidential election campaigns." Well we all know how that turned out. Sean Gourley, founder and CEO of Primer, joined us to talk about bots, propaganda and fake news and how they relate to the work his own company is doing in natural language understanding and generation.
Released:
Apr 21, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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