Bitcoin as explained by AI

May 23, 2018 2:43 AM

A very basic stage training on Bitcoin, written using predictive keyboards trained on dozens of Bitcoin explainers. (SLYT)
posted by Pyrogenesis (10 comments total)

At long last, I fully understand bitcoin.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:32 AM on May 23, 2018 [3 favorites]

The people who made this talk about how they do it here. And no, it's not AI, but the point is to interact with machine generated content in ways that produce funny outcomes, rather than demonstrate anything profound about Bitcoin explainers, so that doesn't really seem like a problem to me.
posted by howfar at 4:10 AM on May 23, 2018

A ridiculous pyramid scheme explained by something that doesn't exist. 2018, folks.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 5:27 AM on May 23, 2018 [3 favorites]

I found myself trying to get into the mind of the AI because at a very low level some of this seemed to make sense.
posted by Increase at 5:41 AM on May 23, 2018 [2 favorites]

It's by Botnik, which is more or less a comedy collective built around curating computer-generated humor. (a partial list of Botnik on Mefi previously)
posted by ardgedee at 6:04 AM on May 23, 2018 [3 favorites]

BRB, heading to the shortest mountain in China for more enlightenment.
posted by RedOrGreen at 7:09 AM on May 23, 2018 [1 favorite]

Yesss! I love Botnik. There’s really some great stuff produced there.
posted by FireFountain at 8:13 AM on May 23, 2018

love this!
posted by rebent at 10:28 AM on May 23, 2018

So they used predictive keyboards on text articles to produce a series of text sentences, took those already-composed text sentences that they already have written out in a document somewhere, read them out loud in a video... and still didn't provide a transcript?
posted by one for the books at 11:14 AM on May 23, 2018

this is amazing!
posted by wym at 11:34 AM on May 23, 2018