A social bot, or also described as a social AI or social algorithm, is a software agent that communicates autonomously on social media. The messages (e.g. tweets) it distributes can be simple and operate in groups and various configurations with partial human control (hybrid) via algorithm. Social bots can also use artificial intelligence to express messages in more natural human dialogue. (Wikipedia).
You may have heard about bots and chatbots in the news. But what are they? Octie the robot explains the importance bots will have to every business. Create a chatbot in minutes: http://octaneai.com Learn more about bots: http://chatbotsmagazine.com Talk to our team through our bot: http:/
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Cracking the stealth political influence of bots
Among the millions of real people tweeting about the presidential race, there are also a lot accounts operated by fake people, or “bots.” Politicians and regular users alike use these accounts to increase their follower bases and push messages. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports o
From playlist Chatbots
In this video, you’ll learn more about chatbots and how they're used. Visit https://www.gcflearnfree.org/thenow/what-are-chatbots/1/ for our text-based lesson. This video includes information on: • How chatbots work • How chatbots can be used We hope you enjoy!
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NOTACON 6: The Rise of the Autobots: Into the Underground of Social Network Bots
Speaker: Tom "agent0x0" Eston How do you know that last friend request or Twitter follower was an actual live human being? The truth is...you don't! Bots and bot manufacturers have become rampant in social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter exploiting the trust relationships t
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Bots and You: Learning to live with chat bots
In this CNET Instructional Film, learn what a bot is and how to use them in Facebook Messenger and other chat apps.
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I love digital radio, but sometimes their song descriptions aren't entirely accurate...
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Robotics is a team sport, bringing together people with varied and sometimes surprising skill sets—from marine helicopter mechanics and machine learning PhDs, to puppeteers and chocolate-makers. Meet some of the X team who are teaching robots how to learn, and hear why diverse perspective
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4.1: Mastodon Bot - What is Mastodon?
This is the first video in a new series about making a Mastodon Bot. Mastodon is a decentralized open source social media platform. #Mastodon #decentralization 🎥 Next Video: https://youtu.be/pY4b18JGCKE 🎥 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6byiVX7_Z1rclitVhMBmNFQ
From playlist Session 4: Mastodon API and Bots with Node.js - Programming with Text
DEFCON 17: Social Zombies: Your Friends Want to Eat Your Brains
Speakers: Tom Eston Social Media Security Researcher Kevin Johnson Senior Security Analyst, InGuardians In Social Zombies: Your Friends want to eat Your Brains, Tom Eston and Kevin Johnson explore the various concerns related to malware delivery through social network sites. Ignoring the
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SICSS 2018 - Building Apps and Bots for Social Science Research (Day 2. June 19, 2018)
Chris Bail talks about building and using apps and bots to conduct social science research at the 2018 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Duke University. Slides and materials available here: https://compsocialscience.github.io/summer-institute/2018/teaching-learning-mater
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Building Apps and Bots for Computational Social Science Research
In this video, Professor Chris Bail from Duke University discusses how to build apps and bots for social science research. Link to the slides used in this video are here: https://compsocialscience.github.io/summer-institute/2020/materials/day2-digital-trace-data/building-apps-bots/Rpres/Bu
From playlist SICSS 2020
Dr. Chris Bail, Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Duke University and the Director of the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science, takes us behind the scenes of a field experiment he ran with his colleagues in the Duke Polarization Lab in 2017.
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Rasa Reading Group: Designing Bots for Effective Recommendations
Join Rachael as starts reading the paper "Sorry to Bother You: Designing Bots for Effective Recommendations" by Chris Brown and Chris Parnin. The paper was published at the 2019 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE). Link to paper: https://chbrown13.g
From playlist Rasa Reading Group
If you are interested in learning more about this topic, please visit http://www.gcflearnfree.org/ to view the entire tutorial on our website. It includes instructional text, informational graphics, examples, and even interactives for you to practice and apply what you've learned.
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AlterConf NYC 2016 - How a Personal Chatbot can Make Your Life Better by Lauren Golembiewski
AlterConf NYC 2016 - How a Personal Chatbot can Make Your Life Better by Lauren Golembiewski Chatbots are re-emerging as a technology that can be used to automate businesses, give big brands more customer touch points, and help individuals better communicate. In her talk, Conversational D
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Building a Robot for Twitter to Drive Ep 1
We are taking you with us as we build a robot. The robot will be controlled by tweets. You will tell it where to go. This is just an overview of what we hope to build.
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Rasa Reading Group: Social and Ethical Considerations
Join Mady and Rachael as they start reading the paper "Conversational AI: Social and Ethical Considerations" (Ruane et al 2019). This paper was published at the ACM Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Conference. Link to paper: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2563/aics_12.pdf Want to bui
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