What Enron's emails tell us about artificial intelligence - Technical.ly Brooklyn

Do you know that many of the artificially-intelligent things we use in our everyday, quotidian lives "learned" how to "think" to varying degrees by studying the emails of some of the most craven and degraded capitalists in our deeply weird corporate history? Brooklyn's Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain have a new piece of internet art out called The Good Life (Enron Simulator). We first told you about it back in August, right after it won a Rhizome Net Art Microgrant. You input your email into a very Windows 95-looking website and the site sends you each of the 500,000 publicly-available emails from the Enron archives in the order they were sent. You can choose to receive these emails over the course of seven days, 30 days, one year or seven years. Depending on your choice, you'll receive somewhere between 100,000 and 196 emails per day.