Consumer & Gadgets
In recent years, voice assistants such as Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Cortana have become increasingly popular. People in many countries worldwide communicate with these artificial intelligence (AI) agents on ...
Computer Sciences
Researchers at the AI Lab of Tsinghua University have recently developed an incremental encoder-based model that can generate story endings. An incremental encoder is a type of encoding compression algorithm that is often ...
Computer Sciences
Large language models (LLMs) are an evolution of natural language processing (NLP) techniques that can rapidly generate texts closely resembling those written by humans and complete other simple language-related tasks. These ...
Computer Sciences
An algorithm-based system that identifies telltale linguistic cues in fake news stories could provide news aggregator and social media sites like Google News with a new weapon in the fight against misinformation.
Aug 21, 2018
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Internet
A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does - and by a substantial margin.
Mar 8, 2018
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Computer Sciences
In January 2017, Reddit users read about an alleged case of terrorism in a Spanish supermarket. What they didn't know was that nearly every detail of the stories, taken from several tabloid publications and amplified by Reddit's ...
Aug 2, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Researchers at Rutgers University have found a major flaw in the way that algorithms designed to detect "fake news" evaluate the credibility of online news stories.
May 16, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Authors experiencing writer's block could soon have a new way to help develop the next section of their story.
Aug 25, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Warnings about misinformation are now regularly posted on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms, but not all of these cautions are created equal. New research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that ...
Jan 21, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers are using a kind of machine learning known as sentiment analysis to assess the successes and failures of wildlife conservation over time. In their study, appearing March 19 in Patterns—a new open access data ...
Mar 19, 2020
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