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  • Tag: automation

    • Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)

      14 June 2017

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

        Wikipedia uses editing bots to clean articles: but what happens when their interactions go bad? Image of “Nomade”, a sculpture in downtown Des Moines by Jason Mrachina (Flickr ...
      Read More Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)

    • We should look to automation to relieve the current pressures on healthcare

      20 April 2017

      Author:

      Matt Willis

      Image by TheeErin (Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), who writes: “Working on a national cancer research project. This is the usual volume of mail that comes in two-days time.” In ...
      Read More We should look to automation to relieve the current pressures on healthcare

    • Even good bots fight and a typology of Internet bots

      26 February 2017

      Author:

      Taha Yasseri

      Our new paper titled “Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia” has finally appeared on PLOS One. There are two things that I particularly find worth-highlighting about this work. ...
      Read More Even good bots fight and a typology of Internet bots

    • Fake News Bots

      10 January 2017

      Author:

      Gillian Bolsover

      Automated social media accounts known as ‘bots’ may be used to distort political perception online. We speak with research director Samuel Woolley of the Oxford Internet Institute’s Computational Propaganda ...
      Read More Fake News Bots

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