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Ask AI: How not to kill online conversations

At least on Reddit, certain responses may leave you without an audience

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WELL-RED A computer code that studied over 60,000 Reddit threads offers new insights about getting responses in online conversations.

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By Maria Temming

- More than 2 years ago

A new artificial intelligence could tell whether your next post to an online forum will engage others or fall flat.

Computer scientist Qiaozhu Mei of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and colleagues trained a machine-learning program on about 63,000 Reddit threads to learn what dialog-ending responses look like.