Browsing: chatbots

Machine-learning systems are increasingly worming their way through our everyday lives, challenging our moral and social values and the rules…

While COVID-19 forced an emergency transformation to online learning at universities, learning how to teach efficiently and effectively online using different platforms and…

While the art of conversation in machines is limited, there are improvements with every iteration. As machines are developed to…

It was recently revealed that in 2017 Microsoft patented a chatbot which, if built, would digitally resurrect the dead. Using AI and…

Lockdown continues, which means not many of us are getting out much at all. But there’s relief on the horizon. Sadly, not a lessening of restrictions (though that would be great), but literal relief, for the country’s poorest by way of the R350pm COVID relief grant. And, provided those poor folks have access to a smartphone — as much of the country does — nobody has to go out and apply for it. 

“To be dead,” wrote the 20th century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, “is to be a prey for the living.” Even Sartre, though, would have struggled to imagine casting James Dean in a movie 64 years after the actor’s death.

Before the internet, before smart phones, teenagers and young people would seek out quizzes in comics, read problem pages in girls…

It’s so hard to speak to a real person on the phone these days. Almost any time you need to…

One of the major announcements at Facebook’s F8 conference last week is a new technology that you might never have…