AI against AI…
The competition was about as realistic as DARPA could make it. The tweets were messages harvested from the Twitter stream during a 2014 debate on vaccinations. In this debate, a number of bots had been created as part of a competition to see how they could influence the discussions. So DARPA had ground truth knowledge of which accounts were artificial and which were real.
How DARPA Took On the Twitter Bot Menace with One Hand Behind Its Back – MIT Technology Review
No Comments