Should people know they're talking to an algorithm? After a controversial debut, Google now says yes
Psychology professor Michelle Drouin wanted to know how people would react if a chatbot could emulate a human.
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Psychology professor Michelle Drouin wanted to know how people would react if a chatbot could emulate a human.
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Security
Amazon has fixed a potential exploit discovered by Checkmarx. The latter's researchers said that Alexa could possibly keep tabs on you even if you were totally unaware that malicious outsiders were turning your Echo into ...
Software
Do this, do that. Talking with voice assistants is not like talking to humans and, as helpful as it is to be near the technology, we know the difference. A surprising turn has materialized, however, and it is in the form ...
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(Tech Xplore)—Tell us another one. If you are at all like the rest of us, you wish the Siri-caller conversation could just stop, because you are working in the next cubicle or trying to read and re-read a paragraph in a ...
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(Tech Xplore)—DeepMind's artificial intelligence talents have been working up capabilities for a consumer product. Sam Shead, Senior Technology Reporter for Business Insider UK, said Google applied software developed by ...
Robotics
The traditional interface for remotely operating robots works just fine for roboticists. They use a computer screen and mouse to independently control six degrees of freedom, turning three virtual rings and adjusting arrows ...
Apr 25, 2017
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Robotics
(Tech Xplore)—A robot can solve a Rubik's Cube in 637 milliseconds. The robot, named "Sub1 Reloaded," pulled off the feat with the help of (1) microchips from Infineon and (2) microcontroller Aurix. The latter is described ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Users of voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant know the frustration of being misunderstood by a machine.
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Machine learning & AI
You might have heard that artificial intelligence is going to revolutionize everything, save the world and give everyone superhuman powers. Alternatively, you might have heard that it will take your job, make you lazy and ...
Jul 1, 2024
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Business
Apple is talking to major rival Meta about integrating the Facebook parent company's generative AI into its products, as it tries to catch up with rivals on artificial intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
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