Microsoft Used Machine Learning to Make a Bot That Comments on News Articles For Some Reason

The social internet has a bot problem. Fake accounts plague Twitter and Facebook, and content designed to misinform readers has become an issue that's drawn the attention of Congress. This difficult and growing problem hasn't stopped a team of researchers from creating an algorithm that can parse news stories, then bicker with real humans in the comments section. Engineers at Beihang University and Microsoft China developed a bot that reads and comments on online news articles. They call their model "DeepCom," short for "deep commenter."