C hat Bot Take Over and Instagram Modesty
Here’s the news we’re talking about around the Zbra Studios water cooler. We’ve provided key bullet points from each article for the speed readers out there. For those looking to dig in, click on the links for the full story.
NO, FACEBOOK’S CHATBOTS WILL NOT TAKE OVER THE WORLD
By TOM SIMONITE Form Wired
- “Researchers set out to make chatbots that could negotiate with people. Their thinking: Negotiation and cooperation will be necessary for bots to work more closely with humans.”
- “Instead of a scary story, Facebook’s experiment actually demonstrates the limitations of today’s AI. The blind literalness of current machine learning systems constrains their usefulness and power. Unless you can find a way to program in exactly what you want, you may not get it.”
- “Machine learning research is fascinating, full of potential, and changing our world. The Terminator remains fiction.”
Instagram wants you to know people spend more time with Instagram than Snapchat
By KURT WAGNER From Recode
- “It’s been nearly three years since Instagram released data on how much time users spend on its app. But that metric is important to Snapchat — it was part of Snap’s IPO roadshow — so now Instagram cares about it, too.”
- “Instagram, owned by Facebook, says its users under 25 spend “more than 32 minutes a day on Instagram,” and users 25 and over “spend more than 24 minutes a day” on the app.”
- “Snap stock has struggled since the company went public, and many people, including one of its own underwriters, believe that Instagram is a major reason why. Now Instagram is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Stories by throwing some more salt on Snapchat’s wounds.”
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