Bots in the World of Warcraft!

Every day, millions of people trade in their real-life personas for virtual humans, orcs and night elves in the massive online game World of Warcraft. Real people spend countless hours controlling their virtual counterparts, collecting online treasure, fighting monsters and making their characters more powerful. Some, in a bid to save time or the sanity of their girlfriends, have started using bot programs to autonomously control their characters. A close look was taken into one such "bot" program WoWglider and a conversation took place with its developer who goes by the nickname "Mercury". Full article here!