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🗓️ 10 October 2019
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
0:22.7 | .jp. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.1 | Social media platforms like Facebook use a combination of artificial intelligence and human moderators |
0:44.7 | to scout out and eliminate hate speech. |
0:47.3 | But now researchers have developed a new AI tool that wouldn't just scrub hate speech, |
0:51.6 | but it would actually craft responses to it, like this. |
0:54.6 | The language used is highly offensive. All ethnicities and social groups deserve tolerance. |
1:00.2 | And this type of intervention response can hopefully short-circass the hate cycles that we often get in these different forums. |
1:07.0 | Anna Bethke, a data scientist at Intel. The idea she says is to fight hate speech with more speech, |
1:13.2 | an approach advocated by the ACLU and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. |
1:17.8 | So with her colleagues at UC Santa Barbara, |
1:20.3 | Bethke got access to more than 5,000 conversations from the site Reddit, |
1:24.3 | and nearly 12,000 more from Gab, |
1:26.9 | a social media site where many users banned |
1:29.1 | by Twitter tend to resurface. The researchers had real people craft sample responses to the hate speech |
1:35.3 | in those Reddit and Gab conversations. Then they let natural language processing algorithms |
1:40.5 | learn from the real human responses and craft their own, such as... |
1:45.0 | I don't think using words that are sexist in nature contribute to a productive conversation. |
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