Suddenly, the world is abuzz with chatter about chatbots. Artificially intelligent agents, like ChatGPT, have shown themselves to be remarkably adept at conversing in a very human-like fashion. Implications stretch from the ...
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2023
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Partisan animosity is a growing concern in the United States and abroad, but a new analysis outlines ways to potentially diminish a sentiment that has come to define today's political landscape.
Social Sciences
Sep 19, 2022
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Never-ending campaigns, social media, 24-hour news cycles. Politics are impossible to escape, even for the casual observer.
Social Sciences
Sep 25, 2019
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Articles that people share on social networks can reveal a lot about those readers, research has shown. But a new Carnegie Mellon University study reverses the proposition, asking the question: What can be learned about an ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 12, 2013
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The US presidential election dominates the global media every four years, with news articles, which are carefully analysed by commentators and campaign strategists, playing a major role in shaping voter opinion. Academics ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 24, 2012
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Views around obesity are closely tied up with political values and wider social attitudes, suggesting that tackling weight stigma may require tackling other forms of stigma, new research led by the University of Bristol has ...
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2023
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It's difficult to tell if the recent
Economics & Business
Aug 25, 2023
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We tend to talk about social media in sweeping terms: It's either the death knell for democracy or its savior. It's a tool to fight authoritarianism or a weapon to spread strategic misinformation. It polarizes us or pulls ...
Social Sciences
Feb 2, 2023
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Many people—including public figures such as Nobel Laureate Günter Grass, former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and trade union leader Claus Weselsky—choose not to read their Stasi files. How can this behavior ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2022
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There is no shortage of critiques concerning the use of AI in public decision-making processes. Scholars, for example, have described algorithms as a "toxic cocktail for democracy" by pointing at the ever-growing availability ...
Political science
Aug 24, 2022
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