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Cheerful chatbots don’t necessarily improve customer service
Humans displaying positive emotions in customer service interactions have long been known to improve customer experience, but researchers wanted to see if this also applied to AI. They conducted experimental studies to determine if positive emotional displays improved customer service and found that emotive AI is only appreciated if the customer expects it, and it …
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Should we tax robots?
A small tax on robots, as well as on trade generally, will help reduce income inequality in the U.S., according to economists.
Words prove their worth as teaching tools for robots
Exploring a new way to teach robots, Princeton researchers have found that human-language descriptions of tools can accelerate the learning of a simulated robotic arm lifting and using a variety of tools.
Machine-learning framework finds characters’ actions in movie scripts reflect gender stereotypes
Researchers have developed a novel machine-learning framework that uses scene descriptions in movie scripts to automatically recognize different characters’ actions. Applying the framework to hundreds of movie scripts showed that these actions tend to reflect widespread gender stereotypes, some of which are found to be consistent across time. Victor Martinez and colleagues at the University …
OpenAI announces Point-E, a machine learning system that quickly creates 3D images from a text prompt
A team of researchers at San Francisco-based OpenAI, has announced the development of a machine-learning system that can create 3D images from text much more quickly than other systems. The group has published a paper describing their new system, called Point-E, on the arXiv preprint server.