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Alimama, the digital marketing arm of ecommerce platform Alibaba, has released an artificial-intelligence-enabled Chinese language copywriting tool that it says passed the Turing test and can produce 20,000 lines of copy a second.
It wasn’t clear if Alimama actually conducted a Turing test—in which humans judged whether copy came from a person or AI—or if Alimama means more generally that its AI-generated copy sounds like it was written by a person. (But, if it did, it would join an elite club with just a few members, including computer program Eugene Goostman, which simulates a 13-year-old boy, and possibly Google’s appointment-booking voice technology Duplex.