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Facebook using artificial intelligence to combat terrorist propaganda
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 16.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook uses artificial intelligence to get rid of terrorist propaganda on its platform. For instance, when a terrorist photo/video is uploaded, the system sees whether they match a known photo/video. Also, Facebook uses AI to analyze text.
Image Description | Digital image of the Facebook icon.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo
Facebook pledges its support to groups challenging online extremist content
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 23.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook revealed their plans to fight terrorism and extermists who use the social media platform. They use artificial intelligence to spot and block terrorists' accounts and content.
Image Description | Portrait of Mark Zuckerberg, hand holding a smartphone in front of a laptop screen displaying a Facebook page, smartphone and laptop screens displaying the Facebook logo, and three smartphones.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), male(s), smartphone
Facebook exec quit job and lives as a RECLUSE claiming machines 'destroy jobs' and will spark an 'ugly' revolution
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 4.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | An ex-Silicon Valley employee (Martinez) now lives in the woods because he thinks machines are replacing humans and will take over the world, which will spark a huge revolution.
Image Description | Portraits of Mark Zuckerberg and Antonia Garcia Martinez, a man standing in front of a Facebook/thumb up sign, screenshot of a video showing Zuckerberg in his Facebook HQ, and white robot in a white room with a laptop,
Image Tags | computer/laptop, Facebook, male(s)
'Robot intelligence is dangerous': Expert's warning after Facebook AI 'develop their own language'
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 1.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook's bots Bob and Alice were shut down after they created their own language. The new form of communication was more efficient for Bob and Alice, but in creating this new language, they didn't accomplish their task (i.e. learn how to negotiate like humans). Robotics Professor Kevin Warwick thinks we should be careful and not think this is not dangerous.
Image Description | Photograph of a robot, and black silhouette of a person holding a phone displaying the Facebook app.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), smartphone
The end of apps is here. Long live chat bots
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 31.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, texting, threat
Summary | Apps will soon disappear as bots keep rising. Bots are helpful assistant that can chat with you within any app. Thanks to bots, you can book a table at a restaurant, or make an appointment. You just have to write a message (e.g. on Facebook or Skype), and "someone" will text you back. However, bots are not perfect. Microsoft's bot Tay expressed racist and hateful comments.
Image Description | Digital image representing a collage of a lot of apps, screenshot of a computer screen, chart, hand holding a smartphone displaying a conversation, David Marcus's Facebook post, smartphone screen showing how you can add a bot on Skype, and Tay Tweets account
Image Tags | chart, Facebook, hand(s), Skype, smartphone, text, Twitter
Facebook wants to kill off the phone number in 2016: Claims system is from the 'flip phone era' as it reveals Messenger now has more than 800 MILLION users
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 8.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, texting
Summary | More than 800 million people use Facebook Messenger. Facebook wants to 'kill off the phone number' and attract even more users thanks to more features. Texting and SMS were flip phone communication styles. Now we can do much more with our smartphones, and new communication styles are appearing. With Messenger, Yes, you can text, send stickers, photos, videos, voice clips, GIFs, and even money to people. You can call people and you don't even need to know people's phone numbers anymore. Facebook also wants to introduce its digital virtual assistant called "M" into Messenger
Image Description | Photograph of Mark Zuckerberg, chart displaying Messenger statistics, illustrations of two smartphones displaying a conversation with "M", and photograph of a finger touching a screen displaying several icons.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo, male(s), smartphone, text
Facebook uses AI to help blind people 'see' the site: Feature uses audio and image recognition to describe scenes in photos
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook introduced Automatic Alternative Text; it uses artificial intelligence to help blind people "see" posts. Automatic Alternative Text uses 'neural network' to recognize specific items in photos using millions of examples.
Image Description | Photograph of three smartphone screens displaying Facebook posts, photograph of two hands holding a smartphone, and screenshot of an iPhone's "accessibility" functions
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), smartphone
Facebook must show it can follow its own rules on child safety
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is struggling to comply to its own rules which prohibit all nudity from the platform. Their artificial intelligence software designed to take down all images of nudity works unreliably. Although Facebook is one of the safest spaces online, there are still problems.
Image Description | Reuters image of a lot of Facebook logos through a magnifying glass.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo
Facebook's first chatbot 'dating coach' launched to help singletons find love in the digital age
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 19.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, social media
Summary | Facebook has added the first ever dating chatbot called Lara. It poses a series of questions and finds a match for you. It can have a conversation, so it is not only yes or no questions. This chatbot allows you to date online without having to download an additional app.
Image Description | Images of a woman, smartphones, and chats with Lara, the Facebook dating chatbot.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), smartphone
Facebook has 60 people working on how to read your mind
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Facebook, texting
Summary | Facebook's long term development plans include reading your mind by means of external devices that measure brainwaves and translate them into text. This would emable users to type five times as fast and without having to take their phones out. This way one would no longer have to pause a face-to-face conversation to write a text.
Image Description | Reuters images of Regina Dugan, head of Facebook’s hardware innovation division.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s)
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