Can AI help people without a traditional credit history get access to fair loans? Impact entrepreneur Mercedes Bidart shows how AI is letting informal entrepreneurs in Latin America transform "invisible data" on their phones into a financial identity, helping them get credit and grow on their own terms.
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Narcís Parés, a member of the Cognitive Media Technologies research group of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at UPF, is working on a research line known as "full-body interaction".
As the influence of generative artificial intelligence expands, it can be difficult to grasp how social and ideological perceptions may change as a result. Already implemented into academic, social and professional settings, AI only appears to be gaining momentum. With little regulation, generative AI chatbots tend to reflect patterns of social bias and stereotypes. Biased...
In recent years, robots that have dialogues with humans have become increasingly common in our daily lives. For example, smart speakers and spoken dialogue systems installed in smartphones, and robots that interact with people in stores, have been developed. Dialogue systems commonly fall under two scenarios of use: task-oriented and non-task-oriented. Task-oriented systems perform interactions necessary to achieve a specific goal (e.g., making a reservation). On the other hand, non-task-oriented systems perform interactions in which the focus of the interaction is the dialogue itself. While the development of speech recognition technology has enabled these systems to interact with people, their ability to engage in meaningful dialogue is still limited. This Research Topic focuses on social dialogue with robots, which has been actively studied in recent years.<br/><br/>This Research Topic calls for papers on the research and development necessary to allow robots and people to engage in rich social dialogue. First, we need basic technologies for robots to understand human interaction. In addition to large-scale language models, which have advanced remarkably in recent years, we need technology that enables robots to understand the intent and characteristics of the user. Furthermore, technology that enables robots to generate dialogue by applying these technologies is needed. At the same time, it is necessary to consider the basic question of why people engage in dialogue. I...
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Study 1 was approved by University College Dublin Office of Research Ethics (reference numbers: HS-E-20-110-Samahita and HS-E-20-134-Samahita) and funded by University College Dublin, Collegio Carlo ...
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Parliament's education committee is recommending New Zealand consider following Australia in banning under 16s from social media.
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