Dwelling in a political echo chamber—where you encounter only people who agree with you—is hardly conducive to a healthy democracy.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2018
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342
You'd be wrong to think that Facebook's Messenger app is all about messaging.
Internet
Jul 28, 2016
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12
Humans are so passe. Facebook now wants to expand your social circle in its messaging app, Messenger, beyond friends to include robots - or chatbots - that are powered by artificial intelligence, and designed to shop, search ...
Internet
May 5, 2016
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40
Automated accounts or "bots" play a big role in disseminating information on Twitter, accounting for two-thirds of tweets linking to popular websites, a study showed Monday.
Internet
Apr 9, 2018
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174
Facebook on Monday began letting interactive "bots" inside its Messenger service tap into analytic capabilities once reserved for the social network, ramping up the potential to earn money from e-commerce.
Internet
Nov 14, 2016
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232
While brainstorming ways to highlights it digital image archive, The New York Public Library came up with—the emoji bot.
Internet
Sep 2, 2016
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0
Danfeng Yao, an assistant professor in the computer science department at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, will use a $530,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to develop ...
Computer Sciences
Jan 25, 2010
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0
With the proliferation of female robots such as Sophia and the popularity of female virtual assistants such as Siri (Apple), Alexa (Amazon), and Cortana (Microsoft), artificial intelligence seems to have a gender issue.
Social Sciences
Apr 15, 2021
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It's now possible—though neither easy nor particularly convenient—to buy stuff on Facebook via automated messaging "bots." But it's far from clear that people really want to go shopping on the social network.
Internet
Apr 27, 2016
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162
When you check your Twitter feed, do you assume there is a real person behind each Tweet that is posted or shared? After all, there is a name and a photo, so it must be a real person behind the words, right?
Software
Nov 1, 2016
0
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