People Mountain, People Sea 人山人海 by Mojo Wang © 2014. Mojo Wang is editor of ELLEMEN CHINA by day and illustrator by night, based in Shanghai, China. His work often conveys moods of of sensitivity, hurt, curiosity, yearning or loneliness. You can explore more of his work here 

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To the investigator by Simon Williams

 

Dear Sir,

 

We are contacting you re the transcript http://bit.ly/1oHTtqd 

of a chat session with our chatbot, Mitsuki.

I understand the purpose of your research

was to convince our AI of the fruitlessness of life.

 

While we can see the novelty of this investigation

and the rigour of your discourse is impressive,

you might not be aware of how our project runs.

We honour Turing in our methodology.

 

Each day, randomly, we pick either a researcher

or the application to conduct chats. On that day

one of our doctoral students was at the keyboard.

You should know we haven’t seen her since.

 

Mitsuki Team Leader

Simon Williams has written poetry for 35 years. It ranges widely, from quirky thoughts, to biographical themes, to the occasional Clerihew. He has five published collections, the latest being A Place Where Odd Animals Stand(Oversteps Books, 2012) and He|She  (Itinerant Press, 2013). Simon has a website here. He makes a living as a journalist.

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