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Facebook’s 'spammy' chatbots must improve - and fast
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing
Summary | Facebook's chatbots must improve; people have been complaining about bots' nonsensical answers and spams. Chatbots are not new, but thanks to Facebook, brands and publishers can reach users more easily.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone displaying the Messenger Platform beta, screenshots of three conversations with bots
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone, text, Twitter
Monitor monikers: why what we call our robots matters
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 7.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing, threat
Summary | It is really odd how frequently artificial intelliigence assistants are anthropomorphized. They usually get a human-like name: Alexa, Cortana, Siri, or Amy and Andrew Ingram. This is in line with the larger project of chatbots, which is to make the internet more personalized. This trend to make everything technological more intuitive however suppresses critical thinking and is dangerous.
Image Description | Allstar image of the talking computer from the film 2001: a Space Odyssey.
The royal twitterati: how the monarchy learned to love social media
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, Instagram, marketing, social media, Twitter, YouTube
Summary | The British royals have a striking social media presence. Experts say it is very well curated with high quality images and videos and very well chosen language. They are currently looking for a new social media employee but the offered salary in no way reflects the huge responsibility of the job.
Image Description | Getty image of the Queen and of Prince Harry getting tested for HIV as a promotion of getting tested.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
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