The Growth and Ramifications of Twitter

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Twitter endures as one of the central social media platforms used by consumers today. It has evolved since its public release in July 2006. Its deliverance came shortly after Facebook on February 4, 2004 (McFadden, 2018; Phillips, 2007). This synchronous release promoted its rapid growth. The year 2006 was a booming era for all social media platforms. Twitter's rapid growth ended the userbase of platforms like Myspace (Bylund, Kline, & Dumortier, 2015).

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The Economic Advantages of Self-Driving Vehicles

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With the seemingly inevitable uprising of the self-driving vehicle, gear-heads and car enthusiasts alike are in dismay over the various effects they will have. Their woes may be lessened, however, by the vast array of the potential positive impact these SD cars will have on our economy. In the United States today, drivers see around 30,000 annual deaths resulting from auto accidents annually. The self-driving vehicle aims to reduce this number to nearly 0.

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The Government’s Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

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When asked about artificial intelligence (AI), people tend to describe it as a technology that thinks and acts as a human would. This misunderstanding of AI is a gross confusion of its conceptual purpose and application. In an article published by Cambridge University Press, Nils J. Nilsson of Stanford University formally defines the multifaceted theory: "Artificial intelligence is that activity devoted to making machines intelligent, and intelligence is that quality that enables an entity to function appropriately and with foresight in its environment."

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