Testing Shopbots

from the do-you-trust-your-computer dept

An interesting contest where online "shopping bots" had to compete to purchase a weekend vacation. The results were especially interesting in that the bots started acting like humans and bidding up the prices on things based on the competition rather than the actual value.

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