restaurants Follow the Random Restaurant Bot for random restaurants from around the world Ruben Bolling
Old school Indie musician Maggie Rogers sells concert tickets 'like it's 1965,' in-person Rusty Blazenhoff
bots Adobe goes ballistic over a tweet linking to a 27-year-old version of Acrobat Reader Mark Frauenfelder
AI Text this number with the name of a musical artist, and an AI responds with lyrics written in that style Thom Dunn
artificial intelligence Someone programmed a bot to order thousands of McSundaes every 30 minutes to find out which machines are broken. Thom Dunn
bots News plagiarism sites run real stories through thesaurus to avoid detection, to hilarious effect Rob Beschizza
AI A service to help airline passengers get compensated for lost bags, delays, cancellations and overbookings Cory Doctorow
computer science A bot has been finding bugs and submitting patches for them, successfully masquerading as a human Cory Doctorow
Science A machine learning system trained on scholarly journals could correct Wikipedia's gendered under-representation problem Cory Doctorow