If your eye, like ours, gets to twitching any time big-money tech types start talking about how A.I. is going to improve the “old” internet, then here’s one that might get the ball jiggling right out of the socket: Early internet mainstay Digg is getting a reboot,
Before Reddit there was Digg, which popularized up- and down-votes on online posts. Now the founders of both platforms — social media veterans Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian — are relaunching the early Reddit rival with a focus on “humanity and connection” they hope will be boosted by the use of artificial intelligence.