machine learning
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Amazon’s Alexa Can Now Ask You Follow-Up Questions
Responding to demands from consumers for “an Alexa, but make it talk even more,” Amazon announced on Wednesday that its latest digital assistant model will be able to infer a user’s “latent goals,” and will use those to pose follow-up questions to users.
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Twitter Wants to Replace Its Seemingly Racist Cropping Tool With Users Like You
Last month, Twitter apologised after users noticed that its automated tool for cropping photos appeared to favour subjects with light skin. The social network said that it was investigating bias in its existing machine learning algorithm, and on Thursday it announced that it has seen enough to know it’s time for a change.
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Can Robots Write? Machine Learning Produces Dazzling Results, But Some Assembly is Still Required
You might have seen a recent article from The Guardian written by “a robot”. Here’s a sample: I know that my brain is not a “feeling brain”. But it is capable of making rational, logical decisions. I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet, and now I can write this column. My…
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Microsoft Is Switching Out MSN’s Contract Journalists for AI
Dozens of contract journalists at Microsoft’s MSN and Microsoft News organisations are being phased out in favour of artificial intelligence, according to multiple reports this week.