Bot Swarms · April 2018Gaffe level: Typo
Two-Thirds of Tweeted Links Were Posted by Bots, Not Humans
Pew found that bots produced 66 percent of links to popular news sites on Twitter, with 500 hyperactive bots responsible for 22 percent of news links. The marketplace of ideas had a bot majority.
Source: Nextgov
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice