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Playing psychotherapist to a troubled AI in 'Syntherapy'

In the visual novel Syntherapy, everyone has a complex: The president of the university, the Clippy-like OS assistant and especially the depressed AI who you’ve been sent to help. Not to mention the protagonist. Set about 20 years in the future, the game’s narrative is told from the vantage point of Melissa Park, a psychotherapist. Out of the blue comes a nervous request from a grad student…
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Why AI is a small business’s best friend

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Artificial intelligence is rapidly making its way into the small-and-medium business (SMB) layer of the economy, with the same promises and pitfalls that it has brought to large organizations. Both on the cloud and in the traditional data center, new services and software releases are bringing advanced…
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Mage launches low-code AI dev tool into general availability

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Mage, an archaic term for a magician or someone who makes magic, is now also the name of a Silicon Valley startup that’s demonstrating some magic of its own. The Santa Clara, California-based company today released to general availability its prize low-code tool for product developers to build AI…
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This new dataset shows that AI still lacks commonsense reasoning

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Abductive reasoning, frequently misidentified as deductive reasoning, is the process of making a plausible prediction when faced with incomplete information. For example, given a photo showing a toppled truck and a police cruiser on a snowy freeway, abductive reasoning may lead someone to infer that…
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