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Non, Facebook n'a pas «paniqué» à cause d'un programme d'IA capable d'inventer un langage

(No, Facebook didn't "panick" because of an AI program capable of inventing a language)

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 1.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Dhruv Batra, a researcher in artificial intelligence, read many Facebook posts and tweets describing apocalyptic scenes about the fact that artificial intelligence had invented a new language. Batra wrote an article denouncing how the media portrayed the event. When Facebook programmed two bots to teach them how to negotiate, employees noticed that the bots had invented their own language. The new language was based on English vocabulary; therefore, it was more or less comprehensible. But since the program was not working the way it was supposed to work, workers modified it. They didn't "kill" it, so there is no reason to panick.
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Quand l'intelligence artificielle invente un langage incompréhensible par l'homme

(When artificial intelligence invents an incomprehensible language to humans)

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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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Facebook: «Nous voulons faire d'Internet une “no-go zone" pour les terroristes»

(Facebook: "We want to make the Internet a "no-go zone" for terrorists)

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 16.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook just issued a statement where they explain how they want to fight propaganda and terrorism. Monika Bickert and Brian Fishman talk about why they released the statement now, the technology used to fight terrorism, artificial intelligence, privacy, and threatening content.
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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)

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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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Un cerveau dans les réseaux

(A brain among networks)

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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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Pourquoi Twitter fait sa révolution en abandonnant les 140 caractères

(Why Twitter is having a revolution by dropping its 140 characters)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 7.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook, Twitter
Summary | Twitter is having a revolution: the social network is going to give up its 140-character limit. Twitter has not made any comments yet. Twitter users don't like the idea of writing long tweets. The social network has not changed a lot since 2006. Facebook, however, does not hesitate to introduce changes.
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Sur Facebook, de nouveaux boutons pour dire la colère, la tristesse et l'amour

(On Facebook, new buttons to express anger, sadness, and love)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 28.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is going to introduce new reaction buttons to express love, sadness, surprise, and anger. Mark Zuckerberg thought that a dislike button would have been too negative, so he decided to introduce those new reaction buttons.
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La leçon d'un maître de l'intelligence artificielle au Collège de France

(The lesson of a master of artificial intelligence at the Collège de France)

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 4.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Yann LeCun is a master of artificial intelligence; he will be at the Collège de France on Feb. 4th. LeCun was inspired by Chomsky and Piaget's debate about innate or acquired language; later, he did his PhD on artifical neurons. He joined Facebook in 2013. Thanks to his research, our cell phones' assistants can now recognize human voice, and people's faces can be identified in pictures. LeCun also invented "deep learning".
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Facebook place le business au coeur de sa messagerie

(Facebook places business at the heart of its messaging service)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 14.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | War bots has begun. Facebook is going to develop one of those devices that simulate human conversations thanks to artificial intelligence. Facebook wants to include on its social network all the online transactions (including commercial ones).
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Facebook: au «J'aime» s'ajoutent «J'adore», «Triste» ou «Grrr»

(Facebook: Besides "Like", "I love it", "Sad" or "Grrr" were added)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 24.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook introduced five new reaction buttons. They say they want to give people more possibilities to quickly share a reaction.
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