Alibaba Says Its AI Copywriting Tool Passed the Turing Test

It's generating copy for sites like Taobao and Tmall

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.)

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