some of that is good bots but a lot is bad bots trying to spread malicious things.o scan ad networks which is why no one paid attention and congress didn't worry about it. that same way you can get trending things, that's what impacted the election, that's why congress is paying a to this. >> deputy attorney general rod rosenstein was out talking about the influence of those ads and it raised eyebrows. listen. >> i think what people need to keep in mind is that there is a distinction between people trying to sway american elections and succeeding in swaying american elections. american citizens are pretty savvy, when they decide who to vote for i don't think they would be influenced by ads posted by foreign governments, i think people are more thoughtful about that and in the way that they make their decisiones. >> okay, rod rosenstein, there's a lot that's been happening over the last 11 months we have learned and it seems to me one of the crucial pieces is that people don't know whether it's fake or not. they don't know whether the ads are scams or bots or fake or

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hours the bots we purchased retweeted our headline 2,000 times.witter says it catches 450,000 suspicious accounts every day and will continue to strengthen against attempted manipulation. experts say the 2018 election is already under threat as russian bots attempt to sow confusion among american voters. >> if the person who speaks the loudest is able to win we start to look like a very authoritarian country. >> reporter: in a cyber war bots against facts, the truth is at stake. jo ling kent, palo alto, california. >>> fall is only about a month old, but it already looks like winter in parts of the midwest. the first major snowstorm of the season hitting with up to ten inches reported in parts of minnesota. the roads treacherous with state police reporting more than 100 crashes so far. two of them fatal. tonight temperatures are set to drop below freezing in spots. >>> still ahead, storms, shark attacks and survival. the two women rescued after five months lost at sea sharing their dramatic story. >>> also caught on camera. high speed chase that t

- bot! all: and you! - good morning. it's me, bot.on. i'll show you. this is my new bed. it's made of springs and sprockets. [laughing] what does your bed look like? ooh, neat. hey, let's go see where milli and geo are. milli! geo! - hey, bot, we're in here, brushing our teeth. - oh, they're in the bathroom. - hey, check out my toothbrush. it's shaped like a big green triangle. - and my toer. what does your toothbrush look like? aw, cool! bloop! bloop! bloop! - [g umi alarm. - that sound means someone needs our help. on my belly-belly... all: belly screen! - it's our friend the incredible presto. - what's the problem, presto? - team umizoomi, i can't find my magic wand. - [gasps] oh, no. - yeah, i've looked all over my house, but i don't see it anywhere. - okay, presto. where is the last place you remember having it? - mm, well, i remember having my wand in... the laundry room. hmm, my wand must be around here somewhere. help me look for it. when you see my magic wand, say, "magic wand." [musical flourish] magic wand, yeah. there it i

once real people start following you or me, the bots step away. >> reporter: in two hours the bots weretweeted 10,000. >> there's an arms race going on between twitter and bot builders. >> reporter: twitter says it catches 450,000 suspicious accounts every day. and will continue to strengthen against attempted manipulation. is this legal to be able to buy all of these bots and influence people? >> the u.s. government in terms of the laws that are surrounding being able to buy followers are buy fake contest is the wild west. >> reporter: experts say the 2018 election is already under threat as russian bots attempt to soak confusion among american voters. >> if the person that speaks the loudest is able to win, we start to look like a authoritarian country. >> reporter: the new cyber war of bots against facts, the truth is at stake. >> twitter, facebook, google are going to be facing off with capitol hill congressional investigators next wednesday when they'll be answering more questions on how these bots work and all issues related to russia and the presidential election. also just bre

the bot just went too early. this competition has given thousands of students invaluable experience of robotics and programming. and of course, when you do get knocked out, you can still enjoy everyone else's smash—ups! wow, what an exhilarating way to end this trip to japan! now, you'll find loads of extra photos from ourjourney on twitter @bbcclick. we also live on facebook. thanks very much for watching and we'll see you soon. things set to get livelier in parts of uk on monday and the met office hasissued of uk on monday and the met office has issued an amber be prepared warning for strong winds, potentially disruptive across parts of northern ireland in the second pa rt of northern ireland in the second part of the day. all of course due to what is currently hurricane 0phelia, still a way to the south, but notice a stream of cloud into the northern half of the country, producing rain in parts of northern ireland, southern scotland and it turns wet here overnight and the rain pushes north. away from that, it

i understand that's a problem in the industry worldwide dealing with bots. what do you do about that, and how do you not get legitimate people who are trying to exercise their first amendment rights wrapped up in that? >> sir, you have just identified the absolute, total nut of the problem, the dilemma. but it's not unsolvable. i don't think you can come up with anything that will ever be 100% full proof because the technology is very low barrier to entry and will always evolve. it's like a game of whack-a-mole. they're always going to find new ways to do things, but i keep coming back -- i'm sorry i sound like a broken record. nobody actually knows what a record is these days. i'm sorry i keep repeating myself, but i think elements of supplier qualification, knowing with whom you're doing business up and down the supply chain and billing that into a comprehensive self-regulatory program will go, and is we have proof that it goes a long way to reducing the bot traffic. >> under some sort of self-regulatory program, you're going to have to have the ability of

>> yes. >> reporter: nick found that russians were buying armies of bots that were difficult to trace >> one of the things the russians did is they use bots to get bmomentum. >> they retweeted our tweet 5,000 times. twitter catches 450,000 suspicious accounts every day and will continue to strengthen against manipulation. experts say the 2018 election is under threat as russian bots have confusion among the american voters. >> if the person that speaks loudest wins, we look thor tear yan. >> reporter: the truth is at stake. nbc news, palo alto, california. >>> let's check in with nbc meteorologist rafael. >> good morning. mostly quiet. light snow in denver. los angeles, sunshine and clouds, temperatures low 70s. seattle looking good. dry in the pacific northwest with temperatures in the 50s and 60s. the trick or treat forecast, warming up in denver, cool in los angeles. lots of clouds. temperatures, upper 60s. we stay dry up and down the west coast for halloween. back to you. >> layer it. >> that will do it for us, i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. thanks for watching "early to

the winner is the first bot to get the other one out of the ring twice.is the first to get one point. though, if a bot flips over or stops working, the match is over, or maybe they'll give them extra time if it's really fun. you'll get the idea. they can't even push across the floor. how's this going to work? the rings are made of steel and the sumo bots have really strong magnets to simulate the mass of real sumo wrestlers to give them the best chance of not being flipped. but the fact the umpires need to wear shin guards probably tells you that this doesn't always work. here we go! yeah. it's quick. and the reason is that once the bots are left alone, these matches are taking place entirely autonomously. these machines are attempting to outthink and outsense each other in the blink of an eye. someone who knows how best to gain those little advantages is this 17—year—old, amani mori. her dad came second in the very first robot sumo competition. last year, she came third. translation: i am trying hard to beat my father's record. that is what i am aiming t

[both snoring softly] - uh-oh, the sleepy music made bot and the clock fall asleep. - wake up, bot. you can't save presto if you're sleeping. - what? hey? huh? snoozing servers! i was sleeping. - the crazy magic is making these alarm clocks act very strangely. instead of waking people up, their music puts them to sleep. - hmm, the clocks play sleepy music when the big red arrow points to the number 12. so whenever an alarm clock points to 12, we need to cover our ears so we don't hear the music.

- bot! all: and you! - good morning. it's me, bot.t a brand-new bed. come on. i'll show you. this is my new bed. it's made of springs and sprockets. [laughing] what does your bed look like? ooh, neat. hey, let's go see where milli and geo are. milli! geo!

and a bot on twitter on twitter, everybody knows they're mostly bots out there and they aren't communicating with other people directly, so there's no impersonation the problem on facebook is that the russians and others use bots to impersonate human beings. people are having interactions with bots, thinking they're interacting with a human we don't yet have the dimensions of that. and candidly, that's one of the things we have encouraged both the senate and house intelligence committees to insist on, getting the data on bot activity and understanding how many of these groups that the russians either created or infiltrated are dominated by bots,and what is the impact. for every dollar you spend on advertising, you can have a fleet of bots that magnified the impact of that really dramatically because of the way facebook is organized with these groups of like-minded people that facebook collects to make advertising easy but which also make inevitable the abuse by bad actors >> roger, great to have you with us >> always nice to be with you. >> i've been concerned about it, oddly enough, you loo

win or lose, of course, overthe off and the bot went too early.competition has given thousands of students invaluable experience in robotics and programming. and of course, when you do get knocked out, you can still enjoy everyone else's smash—ups! wow, what an exhilarating way to end this trip to japan. now, you will find loads of extra photos from our journey you will find loads of extra photos from ourjourney on twitter, @bbcclick. we are also on facebook. thank you so much for watching, and we will see you soon. hi there. we're going to look at the satellite picture, first of all, because we have quite a typical autumnal set up, really. cool north—westerly winds across the atlantic meeting milder southerly winds, the a weather front in between. what of course is not normal is this. hurricane ophelia, a category two hurricane, near the azores, with winds gusting to 120 miles an hour. they will be affecting our weather early next week. for the time being, we have warm winds wafting their way across the british isles, dragging out that warm air f

>> we have a winner, team mega bot. >> yeah! >> but there are other bots out there and this could be the first of many. >> kobe is here walking through a field in saskatchewan and he spots this. >> it's okay. >> this is a great horned owl. >> you know what happened, it's probably swooping down on some mouse or something and didn't see that. >> of course it didn't and that's just tragic and sad. these are gorgeous animals and they do so much for the environment, too. >> you get a good look at how big and round the piercing eyes are. >> who is going to help me, who? >> kobe. he's got gloves on. >> ooh, you are just too great up there, pal. >> he examines what is caught, how wrapped up is this thing and it only appears to be that one wing and that one area. he does get out a knife and makes quick work of the rescue. once he cuts it free -- >> there you go. >> it kind of hangs there, so he has to coax it off the wire. >> you can do it, let go. let go. there you go. >> but it doesn't fly away. >> of course not. tryingo figight t to f

did you have a hand in generating these bots-- >> parscale: i had nothing to do with bots. think bots work. >> stahl: you were called the king of the bots. >> parscale: i know. it's ridiculous. it's just the craziest thing ever. no one on our team ever sat down with me and said, "brad, we should make bots." >> stahl: but if-- if you see that there are hundreds of thousands of bots floating around with pro-trump messages, somebody generated it. where would it come from? >> parscale: i would imagine there were people, everyday people in america, who thought they were trying to help. i don't know. >> stahl: if the bots came from the russians, would you know? >> parscale: nah. >> stahl: do you think it might have? >> parscale: no idea. >> stahl: could it have? >> parscale: could be from anybody in the world. >> stahl: the house intelligence committee looking into the russian meddling has contacted parscale and he's agreed to talk to them. i understand that part of these investigations that are going on is to understand how the russians knew where to target their campaigns, thei

[laughing] i join him on saying there should be a war on bots.t's something that didn't get addressed in today's hearing. i feel very strongly we need something called a blade runner law which forces entities to try the identify bots instead of the bots having to identify themselves as not human. we don't know... as you said, we don't know how many tens of millions of these entities are not human, and they absolutely aid these foreign propaganda its. i think it's a priority. i give them credit for starting. by the next election i think they're going to have to do a lot more, and i think congress has to keep watching everybody, because the incentives are not that deep. the revenue model is helped by foreign propaganda. >> woodruff: gentlemen, wile keep it there and we'll continue to watch it. timothy wu, thomas rid. gentlemen, thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: and in other news, president trump took to twitter today to downplay the role of a former campaign aide who plead guilty in the russian probe. george papadopoulos admitted to lying to th

tactics include having a black bot which is harder for your opponents' sensors to see.: the programming needs to be superior to win. but i think having the best blade is the most important feature. here she goes. i am no expert, but that doesn't look good. but in the second round, her expertise starts to show. as the day goes on, she conquers all before her... ..untiljust before the final.. ..she crashes out. translation: there is a strategy called "feint" when you back off before you go in, but the timing was off and the bot went too early. win or lose, of course, over the years, this competition has given thousands of students invaluable experience in robotics and programming. and of course, when you do get knocked out, you can still enjoy everyone else's smash—ups! wow, what an exhilarating way to end this trip to japan. now, you will find loads of extra photos from ourjourney on twitter, @bbcclick. we are also on facebook. thank you so much for watching, and we will see you soon. hello. some bright and warm weather today. that's ahead of ophelia, hurricane ophelia.

and they've got a user base of some seven hundred million people who are quite happily using bots to plan holidays to schedule a dinner reservations to book a car to plan anniversary trips things like that a lot of these jobs that are done by people right now they're going to be wiped out so the the revolution's upon us again it's up to our leaders to listen to what the world bank and even to take a look at what's going on in banking and other areas and start to address these the underlying start to address the changes and try to figure out what we're going to do with people unfortunately i do feel a lot of our leadership is sleepwalking they're letting the changes roll and again we're going to see massive spikes in unemployment not this time in the agricultural sector or the manufacturing sector which what we're what which were impacted by the earlier waves of automation now it's going to be it's squarely in this digital sector of the economy it's going to be squarely in the middle class services and upper middle class services and it is something to worry about and it will give ris

now this where is the bot kind of has done all it can and is going to bring in a live human. >> so this is jean. >> this is the dashboard and can see the live chat and continue to work the lead and then also get recommendations saying, hey, look, this person is a 25% churn. here is how to get them back. >> we're near in washington. how do you see government agencies using this a.i.? >> i actually -- if you think about 3-1-1-a nonemergency services line. starts with a phone line and then went to a customer center available on the web and if you think about it this way, if there's a big event that occurs, rather than call the call center, you could essentially go into the webs, see if maybe these are the top five common things, whether it's a parking ticket or information on -- need to provide information on a leaky hydrant. don't know where to go but if guy to a bot, it's quirk than having to navigate the services or call someone. so those are ways to save your resources for more pressing matters. >> is the technology online now. >> yes. >> being used. >> this is being used. this bot its

i said stop, it's a bot.ng with a bot. >> ali and i argue this all the time. >> fighting with someone on twitter is like you -- it's like wrestling with a pig. think it's happy and you end up dirty. i think the question is what kind of control do these platforms have over their platforms? you can't imagine the amount of information that's going through these. it's not -- like, a newspaper is only so big. a television network only reaches so many people. this goes -- >> it covers everybody. >> yeah. he has a friend and so on and so on. >> the problem is with rt and sputnik, what's the other issue was whether it's bots or hundreds of thousands or millions of accounts that the average person can't tell. >> they can't tell. and the question is whether ron rosenstein's comment is ridiculous. i wonder if ads affect people. >> i wonder if ads affect people? why do they exist if they don't? >> gee, the whole entire 20th century you missed that part? did you not see "mad men"? like, check in. it was ridiculous. of cou

bot.t want to hear from you unless you're a bot. regulators, today is your day. google, facebook, twitter. right now we hand things over to andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> aftershocks. president trump reportedly privately fuming after the mueller indictments shake the white house. >> they were indicted long before i ever met donald trump or had any association with the campaign. >> but publicly they are in denial about any close ties with their former campaign officials. >> can you talk about what president trump's role with the campaign

the bot just went too early.eryone else's smash—ups! wow, what an exhilarating way to end this trip to japan. now, you'll find loads of extra photos from ourjourney on twitter @bbcclick. we also live on facebook. thanks very much for watching and we'll see you soon. hello, this is breakfast with chris mason and naga munchetty. harvey weinstein is expelled from the oscars academy. they want to send a message that the era of sexually predatory behaviour in the movie industry is over. good morning — it's sunday 15 october. also this morning: killer drivers could face life sentences under tougher penalties being planned by the government.

- hey, bot, we're in here, brushing our teeth. - oh, they're in the bathroom. - hey, check out my toothbrush. it's shaped like a big green triangle. - and my toer. what does your toothbrush look like? aw, cool! bloop! bloop! bloop! - [g umi alarm. - that sound means someone needs our help. on my belly-belly... all: belly screen! - it's our friend the incredible presto. - what's the problem, presto? - team umizoomi, i can't find my magic wand. - [gasps] oh, no. - yeah, i've looked all over my house, but i don't see it anywhere. - okay, presto. where is the last place you remember having it? - mm, well, i remember having my wand in... the laundry room.

. - hey, bot, how do we get to presto's laundry room? - let's check my robot computer.

the job insecure are about to meet a security bot. the k5, made by a company called night scope. head of marketing, casey stevens gave me the tour. a series of sensors for patrolling malls, offices, and maybe soon government property. that's only about a third of the district. >> all of just not right. then alerting a human being to say, hey, you might want to look at this. >> reporter: humans had to come to the rescue of one of these bots in july. one slipped on some steps in georgetown, and face planted into a fountain. its name was steve. >> it was a great learning experience. that's one of the things about new technology. there are always going to be things that come up and help us to learn more. >> reporter: now trying to sell these to the federal government. meaning you could see even more of these in our city. >> i think in the coming year, you're going to see these popping up in a bunch of places. >> reporter: an aggressive move by a company only four years old. luckily there are no reporter bots in night scope's future, right

i understand that's a problem in the industry worldwide dealing with bots. what do you do about that, and how do you not get legitimate people who are trying to exercise their first amendment rights wrapped up in that? >> sir, you have just identified the absolute, total nut of the problem, the dilemma. but it's not unsolvable. i don't think you can come up with anything that will ever be 100% full proof because the technology is very low barrier to entry and will always evolve. it's like a game of whack-a-mole. they're always going to find new ways to do things, but i keep coming back -- i'm sorry i sound like a broken record. nobody actually knows what a record is these days. i'm sorry i keep repeating myself, but i think elements of supplier qualification, knowing with whom you're doing business up and down the supply chain and billing that into a comprehensive self-regulatory program will go, and is we have proof that it goes a long way to reducing the bot traffic. >> under some sort of self-regulatory program, you're going to have to have the ability of

. - quick, bot, let's launch the other sock. - and this time, let's aim lower. help us launch the sock at the bubble. say, "ready, aim, sock!" ready, aim, sock! we popped the bubble! whoo-hoo-hoo! - you did it! i'm free. now i can turn off this crazy washing machine.

. >> did you have a hand in generating these bots? >> i have nothing to do with bots.f you see there are hundreds of thousands of bots floating around with pro-trump messages, somebody generated it. where would it come from? >> i would imagine there were people, everyday people in america who thought they were trying to help. i don't know. >> if the bots came from the russians, would you know? >> no. >> do you think it might have? >> no idea. >> could it have? >> could be for anybody in the world. >> former fbi agent quint wants a cyber security expert will jen us next who did they try to target to flip the electoral college to donald trump. >>> i understood early that facebook was how donald trump was going to win. the classes, the friends, the independence. and since we planned for it, that student debt is the one experience, i'm glad she'll miss when you have the right financial advisor, life can be brilliant. ameriprise america's small business owners. and here's to the heroes behind the heroes, who use their expertise to keep those businesses covered. and here's t

but if i can go to a bot, it's quicker than having to navigate those services or someone. those are ways you can feed the resources -- >> host: technology online now? is it being used? >> guest: this is being used. this particular bot zits is just -- itself is just made for demo, but all of the capabilities are there, and we have got partners and even microsoft research can help customers realize this potential. >> host: william mendoza of microsoft, thanks for your time. >> guest: thank you so much. >> "the communicators" also visited a tech fair with developers showing their technology to members of congress and their staffs. >> host: and here on capitol hill at the cta show is dr. ximena hartsock of phone2action. dr. hartsock, what is phone2 action? >> guest: it's a platform -- [inaudible] used to connect people with lawmakers and share the -- [inaudible] >> host: what's your connection to it? >> guest: i'm a member of cta, and i'm -- [inaudible] >> host: how did it come about? >> guest: i used to be in government, and then i was in advocacy. and even in the two worlds

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consumer privacy controls for bot fraud. but nobody had anticipated illicit russian actors. >> doctor, so you think you're ready next time, or you're getting ready for next time? >> well, you know, i -- i was -- intelligence agencies say they're coming back. >> they will be. but i'll give you kind of a warning born of my older profession. back -- way back in my dark past history, i covered politics and political media for the "new york times." and i developed a principle back in the late '80s that we're always covering the last election. the media and the way communications happen are always outrunning our thoughts about what's going to happen. i don't think anybody anticipated the degree to which twitter was going to be a massive social influence, let alone bots. so, yes, i think it's -- we can very much be prepared for the bot traffic problem. but we don't know what mole is going to pop up in that game. >> gotcha, thank you. you've made what seems like intuitively obvious point that the internet is properly analogized to t

[engine revving] - oh, bot. - seat belts on. wahoo! it's working. we're flying over the bunnies.

thank you, bot. - you're welcome, presto. help me use my magic wand to put everything in the house back the way it was. say, "one, two, three, four, make it like it was before." one, two, three, four, make it like it was before. - all the forks and spoons are going back where they belong. - the alarm clocks are back to normal too. - phew! no more crazy doors.

consumer privacy controls for bot fraud. but nobody had anticipated illicit russian actors. >> so you think you're ready next time or getting ready for next time? >> well, you know, i was -- >> intelligence agencies say they are coming back as early as 2018. >> they will be. but i'll give you kind of a warning born of my older profession. back -- way back in my dark past history, i covered politics and political media for the "new york times." and i developed a principle back in the late '80s that we're always covering the last election. the media and the way communications happen are always outrunning our thoughts about what's going to happen. i don't think anybody anticipated the degree to which twitter was going to be a massive social influence, let alone bots. so, yes, i think it's -- we can very much be prepared for the bot traffic problem. but we don't know what mole is going to pop up in that game. >> gotcha, thank you. mr. vandewalker, you've made what seems like intuitively obvious point that the internet is properl

. >> did you have a hand in generating these bots? >> i have nothing to do with bots. i don't think bots work. >> but if you see there are hundreds of thousands of bots floating around with pro-trump messages, somebody generated it. where would it come from? >> i would imagine there were people, everyday people in america who thought they were trying to help. i don't know. >> if the bots came from the russians, would you know? >> no. >> do you think it might have? >> no idea. >> could it have? >> could be for anybody in the world. >> former fbi agent quint wants a cyber security expert will jen us next who did they try to target to flip the electoral college to donald trump. t's genh for everyday use and cleans better than regular toothpaste? try polident cleanser. it has a four in one cleaning system that kills ten times more odor causing bacteria than regular toothpaste, deep cleans where brushing may miss, helps remove tough stains, and maintains the original color of your dentures when used daily. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture, use polident every day. >>