Archive for April, 2012

Twittest Results summary

Twittest Results summary

Scottish senior school pupils took part, tweeting – and voting on who they though tweets really came from. Over the course of a week in March, our system saw 12,000 tweets and 150,000 votes, with contributions from 2 real celebrities, 3 university staff, 4 chatbots, and hundreds of (mostly) S5 senior school pupils from across […]


Twittest

Twittest

http://www.twittest.org The Twittest is a playful project for students about intelligence based on the use of the social network application Twitter and making reference to Alan Turing’s ‘Turing Test’. The competition, was developed by ourselves at the University of Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival, and was created to mark the 100th […]