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Samsung launches Bixby voice assistant in the UK to rival Siri and Alexa
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 22.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | Samsung unveiled a new voice assistant called Bixby, which is available for Galaxy S8 users. Users can use the voice command in order to perform tasks that would require them to use applications and/or clicks. They can for instance say "good night" in order to turn on an alarm. Thanks to Bixby, Samsung users can also take selfies and post pictures on social media.
Image Description | Photograph of a man standing in front of a giant smartphone on a screen, slideshow explaining how Bixby works, and one of Samsung Mobile's tweets.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone, Twitter
Is China Outsmarting America in A.I.?
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 27.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, computer programming, politics
Summary | China is surpassing the US in artificial intelligence research. They succeeded in getting to human-level language recognition a year before Microsoft did. China is also increasing funding for artificial intelligence research massively while President Trump is cutting research funding. The Chinese interent giant Baidu has succeeded in understanding very subtle differences between Chinese dialects.
Image Description | Images of a German AI researcher in China with his machines and students, a Tweet, and an auditorium watching a human playing a board game against Google AI.
Image Tags | female(s), Google, male(s), Twitter
Facebook musste AI abschalten, die "Geheimsprache" entwickelt hat
(Facebook had to turn of AIs who developed their own "secret language")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 28.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, language threat
Summary | Facebook had to deactivate two artificial intelligence chatbots called Bob and Alice. They had begun communicating with one another in a knockoff language similar to English with sentences like: "I can can I I everything else." Because this communication is unintellegible for the developers, Bob and Alice were taken down for security reasons.
Image Description | Getty images of Mark Zuckerberg and cyborgs as well as a Tweet by Elon Musk.
Image Tags | male(s), Twitter
Twitter brings IBM's AI machine Watson on board to fight abuse
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 23.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, cyberbullying, Twitter
Summary | Twitter are responding to growing criticism about the mass of abuse happening on the platform. The are launching a new artificial intelligence helper to detect abuse. His name is Watson and he is very good at understanding subtle meanings and intentions as well as analysis images.
Image Description | Reuters image of silhouettes holding smartphones in front of the Twitter logo,
Image Tags | hand(s), logo, smartphone, Twitter
Tackling abuse on social media is a monumental task - but billion dollar companies should be up to it
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 15.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, cyberbullying, law, social media, threat
Summary | Social media have a huge problem with trolling, cyberbullying, and sharing of criminal content. It is however extremely difficult for providers to find such content before it is reported or seen by many. Especially in verbal abuse, the line between joking and slander is blurred and human language is too messy to be able to flag down such instances with algorhythms.
Image Description | Getty image of the Facebook logo on a hand-held smartphone and a laptop and a photograph of a screen showing the Twitter logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo, Twitter
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