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I, chatbot: How ‘human’ should chatbots be?

Futurum

Published: Love them or hate them, chatbots are having an increasing role in the technological space, now that artificial intelligence has developed to a stage where they can be genuinely useful in fields such as healthcare, defence and finance. FUNDER Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

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Online battles: combatting false information and reducing online risks

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Artificial intelligence (AI) — computer algorithms and systems able to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. This is because of their active use of social media, and they may read and share posts rapidly, without proper fact-checking.”. TALK LIKE A… CYBER SECURITY EXPERT. FACT-CHECKING.

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Creating software that works for everyone

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They have different ages, languages, cultural backgrounds, personalities, and physical and mental characteristics. However, if you are interested in a career in software engineering, it would be useful to study mathematics, computer studies/ICT and physics at school. a webpage or app display). However, most software does not.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

A key idea—ultimately supported at a foundational level by our Physics Project —is that we can think of everything that happens as a computational process. In 2019 I was doing another systematic enumeration, now of possible hypergraph rewriting rules that might correspond to the lowest-level structure of our physical universe.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Funder : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Scientific imaging in physics. GrantRef=EP/R025819/1 ). Joanna’s research.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus).