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This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

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Machine learning is the ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results. Machine learning methods enable computers to learn without being explicitly programmed and have ...

How machine intelligence changes the rules of business by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani In 2019, just five years after the Ant Financial Services Group was launched, the number of consumers using ...

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