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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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GT Computing Associate Professor Mark Riedl gives some perspective to the news that e-commerce site Alibaba is developing an artificial intelligence system that is currently capable of writing 20,000 lines of product ad copy per second.