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Facebook is making a chatbot that can fill awkward silences

Facebook is making a chatbot that can fill awkward silences

29 January 2018

Giving chatbots an artificial personality can help them make small talk – though some just end up talking about themselves
A woman in front of Big Ben

How to combat the dark Facebook ads aiming to swing UK voters

1 June 2017

Targeted advertising is casting a cloud over the UK election, but it wouldn’t be hard to bring this shadowy area into the light, if politicians were willing

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