Number of Posts: 16
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Schnauze, Bot!
(Shut up, bot!)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 3.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, computer programming, Facebook, threat
Summary | News broke that two artificially intelligent Facebook chatbots, Bob and Alice, began communicating with one another using a language that not even their programmers could understand. The programmers then proceeded to kill the chatbots. Some may see this as a threat that artificial intelligence could overpower humans but the messages between the chatbots just operated on a different logic than human linguistic logic and did not seem very threatening at all.
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«Achtung, unterschätzen wir die Senioren nicht»
("Attention, let's not underestimate the elderly")
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 2.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone, threat
Summary | More and more rural post offices are being closed due to restructuring. Online post office services should pick up the slack but it is questionable whether elderly people will be able to adapt to virtual post offices with chatbots. The chief of the Swiss Post, Susanne Ruoff, urges us not to underestimate the elderly. Many of them are online with smartphones and computers nowadays.
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Mit dem Selfiestick im Späti rumeiern
(Egging around at the deli with the selfie stick)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 9.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | anglicisms, artificial intelligence, emojis, Facebook, fake news, language threat, selfie
Summary | The new German dictionary "Duden" has added 5000 new key words, many of which are originally English. Now, having been included in the most authoritative dictionary in German language, they are officially part of the German language as anglicisms. Such words include fake news, emoji, selfie, chatbot, and liking ("liken" in German with the English word stem "like" and the German infinitive verb ending "-en").
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Mark Zuckerbergs
(Mark Zuckerberg's)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 13.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Mark Zuckerberg has expressed the goal to design a digital assistant. It should be able to help users simplify some daily tasks. It should, for instance, be able to recognize the face of anyone ringing the doorbell and unlocking it if that person is allowed to enter. This could be particularly useful for the elders. It is however questionable whether Facebook's digital AI assitant can replace human companions or pets.
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Googles sprechender Assistent
(Google's speaking assistant)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 20.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google is launching a voice command assistant called "Google Home". Much like Amazon's Echo, it is a little speaker which picks up verbal commands from casual conversation and delivers answers to various questions or plays the music users request. Google's two decades of experience with online searches has given them enough data to be able to teach and AI robot what words mean in context.
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Googles künstlich intelligenter Chat-Freund
(Google's artificially intelligent chat friend)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 8.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, social media
Summary | Google is launching a new messaging app called Allo. Messaging apps are hailed to be the new thing after social media. Especially messaging apps lie the Chinese WeChat or Allo which have an AI assistant with which users can easily get simple information from within the app, transmit payments, or open a small shop that operates through the app.
Image Description | Reuters image of a man presenting Allo at a conference and a few screenshots of conversations with Allo's chatbot.
Image Tags | Google, male(s), text
Die Maschine erziehen und trainieren
(Raising and training the machine)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 20.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, computer programming, research/study, threat
Summary | Some researchers say that artificial intelligence may eliminate the need for human programmers. Modern programs are becoming more similar to human brains in that it is no longer just the programmer who creates every step of the program but the program itself is capable of learning from experience (technically: exposure to large amounts of data). Some find this idea that computers will become intellectual equals of humans frightening.
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Maschinen sind nicht die besseren Menschen
(Machines are the better people)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 14.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, diversity, gender, translation
Summary | One could think that artificial intelligence robots are not racist or sexist but because they learn from information circulating on the internet, they are subject to the biases as most poeple. This is why a beauty contest judged by an AI robot favored white people as more beautiful. Online job listings can also be biased based on gender so that women will not see higher-paying job listings or gender inclusive language gets lost in translation.
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Heisse Jobs für Poeten
(Hot jobs for poets)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 15.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, misunderstanding
Summary | Linguists might become more important in new industries: chatbots need to be taught how to understand natural human language full of contradictions and unclarities. They have been developed by programmers but they misunderstand colloquial commands. Linguistic expertise is needed to improve artificial intelligence chatbots.
Image Description | Reuters image of a robot.
Diese Technik soll uns den Alltag erleichtern
(This technology should make our daily lives easier)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 5.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy, research/study, smartphone, translation
Summary | Computer are becoming more and more intertwined in our daily lives. Some smartphones can already translate real-time conversations with imitating the speakers voice thanks to advances in voice recognition. Image recognition has also advanced substantially to being able to "read" moods, age, and attractiveness of the photographed individuals. Research is being done for smartphones and other devices to monitor body odor, sweat (to allet to dehydration), or tear liquid (for diabetics).
Image Description | Various simple visualizations of smartphones/devices interacting with people (depicted by emojis), body parts, et cetera.
Image Tags | chart, emojis, female(s), smartphone
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