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Des chatbots rebelles désactivés en Chine
(Rebellious chatbots deactivated in China)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 4.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship
Summary | Two Chinese chatbots have been deactivated after they criticized the Communist Party. One of the chatbots -available on a popular messaging app- answered "no" to the question "do you like the Communist Party?".
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Quand l'intelligence artificielle invente un langage incompréhensible par l'homme
(When artificial intelligence invents an incomprehensible language to humans)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 24.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook programmed two chatbots so they could learn how to negotiate, but they invented a new language by themselves.
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Houseparty, l'autre application victime de la stratégie de copié-collé de Facebook
(Houseparty, the other app victim of Facebook's copy and paste strategy)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 14.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook, video communication
Summary | Ben Rubin et Sima Sistani created a new app called Houseparty, where up to 8 people can talk and see each other at the same time. The new app became very popular among young people. Fidji Simo, responsible of the video part of Facebook, contacted both Rubin and Sistani to talk to them about a potential purchase of their society, but they refused. Then, they discovered that Facebook introduced a new option into Messenger that allows conversations between up to 6 people. Facebook also said they want to launch a new app called "Bonfire" for group videos, which could kill Houseparty definitively.
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Quand les banques s'initient aux chatbots pour répondre à leurs clients
(When banks use chatbots to answer their customers)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 24.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Banks are starting to use more and more virtual assistants to help them. Luvo, Amelia, or KAI can answer customers' questions related to for instance the cost of money withdrawal abroad.
Image Description | Speech bubble saying "Bonjour, que puis-je faire pour vous?"
Quand l'usage du smartphone risque de virer à l'addiction
(When the use of smartphone can lead to addiction)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 8.2.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | A third of young people between 18 and 24 claim that they look at their phone more than 50 times a day. People are more and more addicted to their smartphone, and we should be worried about that. The "Days without smartphones" were created 16 years ago because of this new trend. 41% of French people state that they look at their smartphone in the middle of the night, and 81% say that they use their smartphone while having a meal with friends or family. People are anxious if they don't have their phone. We talk about nomophobia to characterize this new health problem.
Image Description | Photograph of three young people looking at their phone and smiling
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
Du SMS au smartphone, vingt ans à se réinventer
(From SMS to smartphone, twenty years to reinvent oneself)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 25.1.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | smartphone, texting
Summary | The app Shazam was created in 1990, but at that time iTunes and iPhone did not exist. At first, people had to call a number and play the song to an answering machine and would receive the name of the song via text message.
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Un cerveau dans les réseaux
(A brain among networks)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 10.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Yann LeCun was hired by Zuckerberg to join the Facebook team in 2013. LeCun is a master of artificial intelligence, which is why he was hired. LeCun became interested in neural networks after reading a conversation between Chomsky and Piaget about language learning.
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Pour être branché, débranchez-vous
(To be hip, unplug)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 6.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, technology-free
Summary | The author of the article talks about one of his recent experiments: he tried to stay away from social networks for 10 days. Although it was difficult at first, he thought it was a positive experience. He found his ability to concentrate, and realized that his thoughts could be summarized in more than 140 characters. According to a British survey, more than half of adults consider themselves addicted. Harvard researchers claimed that Facebook and Twitter can be as addictive as alcohol or nicotine.
Image Description | Screenshot of a facebook page and a pointer clicking on "log off"
Image Tags | Facebook
Pourquoi les rois du Net rêvent d'intelligence artificielle
(Why the kings of the Internet dream of artificial intelligence)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 16.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain
Summary | Google, Amazon, and Apple have been investing millions of dollars in the field of deep learning. AI used to be a trend in sci-fi movies and books only, but it's now part of our lives. Nowadays, computers do not only do math, they can understand people and respond to them. The way deep learning works is similar to the way ourr brain works.
Image Description | Cartoon representing two chess players: a real man and a "digital" man.
Image Tags | male(s)
Contre la tyrannie des e-mails, passons à l'« e-légement »
(Against the tyranny of emails, let's start the "e-relief")
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 15.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | addiction, email, technology-free
Summary | People spend a lot of time checking and writing emails at work. More and more companies establish "digital detox" measures to help their employees. Because of the immediacy and permanence of emails, workers spend most of their time on their keyboards. As a result, there is a deterioration of the quality of information and a negative impact on productivity.
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