The whole experiment reminded our senior editor for AI, Will Douglas Heaven, of something far less interesting: Pokémon.
Back in 2014, someone set up a game of Pokémon in which the main character could be controlled by anyone on the internet via the streaming platform Twitch. Playing was as clunky as it sounds, but it was incredibly popular: at one point, a million people were playing the game at the same time.
“It was yet another weird online social experiment that got picked up by the…

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