Tag Archives: Alexa

29May/26

Beyond Chatbots: How Robinhood, Visa, and Google are Building the Rails for Agentic Commerce

The $135 Billion Protocol War: Inside the Race to Standardize AI-Driven Transactions

Robinhood’s Pioneering Launch Robinhood has officially ushered in the era of “agentic finance” by launching two flagship products: Agentic Trading and the Agentic Credit Card. Utilizing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), these tools allow retail investors to connect third-party AI agents (like Claude or ChatGPT) directly to Robinhood’s infrastructure to execute financial decisions autonomously. Continue reading

28Apr/25

People trust legal advice generated by ChatGPT more than a lawyer – new study

Eike Schneiders, University of Southampton; Joshua Krook, University of Southampton, and Tina Seabrooke, University of Southampton

People who aren’t legal experts are more willing to rely on legal advice provided by ChatGPT than by real lawyers – at least, when they don’t know which of the two provided the advice. Continue reading

11Nov/23

Internet of Things: tech firms have become our digital landlords – but people are starting to fight back

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Guido Noto La Diega, University of Stirling

From smart toasters to fitness collars for dogs, we live in a world where everything around us is gradually being connected to the internet and fitted with sensors so that we can interact with them online.

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16Apr/23

Practical examples of combining Search Results with the Power of NLP (Natural Language Processing) and Semantic Knowledge

April 16, 2023 /Technology/ — We’ve all had that frustrating experience of trying to search for something and not finding the results we are after. By building systems that leverage NLP, we can infuse our systems with semantic knowledge and minimize this frustration for end users of our systems.
Free-text search can be limiting, requiring us to search using the exact set of keywords that have been indexed. To go beyond simple text matching requires an understanding of both the search intent and the semantic meaning of the words being searched.

Here are a few practical examples of combining search results with the power of NLP and semantic knowledge: Continue reading

01Jul/22

It’s alive! How belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem

OAKLAND, Calif., June 30 (Reuters) – AI chatbot company Replika, which offers customers bespoke avatars that talk and listen to them, says it receives a handful of messages almost every day from users who believe their online friend is sentient.

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