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Some think ChatGPT threatens education, but it might benefit educators and students alike.
An AI-generated image of two philosophers in dialogue. Today’s AI-driven chatbots follow a rich history of dialogue that goes back to the philosophers of ancient Greece.
The rise of AI chatbots provides an opportunity to expand the ways we do philosophy and research, and how we engage in intellectual discourse.
A new AI chatbot could revolutionize marketing for businesses.
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While ChatGPT has the potential to enhance marketing effectiveness, it can’t replace human creativity or form meaningful connections with customers like humans can.
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Artificial intelligence has arrived. But what is it, exactly – and what’s behind some of the most splashy AIs we have encountered to date?
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AI models can now produce meaningful responses to exam and assignment questions. We’ll have to embrace them if we want the next few years to go smoothly.
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The newest OpenAI text-generator is a marked improvement over its predecessor – but it still has its pitfalls.
The chatbots are turning on their creators.
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BlenderBot3’s distaste for its creator sits uncomfortably with its taciturn approach to hate speech.
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A Google employee’s claims that one of its chatbots is sentient has caused a stir across the world.
An unmarked grave with a headstone that resembles a computer screen, nicknamed ‘iGrave’, is seen in north-west London.
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The recent case of a man making a simulation of his deceased fiancée raises important questions: while AI makes it possible to create “deadbots”, is it ethically desirable or reprehensible to do so?
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We developed a prototype messenger chatbot that helps women in South Australia through the steps involved in acquiring ID after exiting prison.
Chatbots could take over the majority of low-level guidance tasks fielded by staff in teaching and learning centres to free them up for where in-person support is most needed.
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Chatbots can be part of a broader approach universities’ teaching and learning centres can take to support faculty in innovating teaching practices.
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New research puts the spotlight on how customers deal with chatbots and suggests ways to improve these sometimes frustrating experiences.
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Individuals who experience suicidal thoughts can show signs of this in the language they use. We analysed more than 100 suicide notes to find these language patterns.
‘The customer is always real.’
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You may not have heard of conversational commerce, but it’s quietly appearing in more and more places.
Chatbots can be utilised to enhance customer experience.
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Banks that do not have chatbots should explore the options of integrating them into their operations.
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Endearing and amusing, AI’s faltering attempts at flirting show how far computer-generated language has come.
Why do we perceive female robots as more human than male robots?
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Virtual assistants and robots are frequently given female attributes. To curb the massive use of such gendering in AI, we need to better understand the deep roots of this phenomenon.
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Our newfound ability to reincarnate the dead as chatbots presents several legal and ethical dilemmas.
AIs are no substitute for human contact, but they can diminish loneliness.
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AI chatbots can provide mental health support for people who are isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Psychological assessment and treatment is based on well-defined rules, which makes it ripe for a robot takeover.