Tag: automation
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Our knowledge of how automated agents interact is rather poor (and that could be a problem)
14 June 2017
Authors: 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 ...
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We should look to automation to relieve the current pressures on healthcare
20 April 2017
Authors: 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 ...
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Even good bots fight and a typology of Internet bots
26 February 2017
Authors: 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. ...
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Fake News Bots
10 January 2017
Authors: 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 ...
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