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Britain shines in AI - but let's nurture it
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 3.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, texting
Summary | British entrepreneurs and investors are doing good; the app Swiftkey was created by three Cambridge graduates and attracted the attention of Silicon Valley.
The Cambridge graduates founded Swiftkey, an app that uses artificial intelligence to predict the next word you can type. Nevertheless, Swiftkey is not the first UK company to be successful; Amazon was the first one. The reason why Britain is so strong in this competitive area might be because of the locations of the startups (e.g. Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College and University College London)
Image Description | Screenshot of a scene of the movie Ex Machina where we can see a robot and a woman, photograph of two men, photograph of a man holding his head looking defeated next to a chess game, video of the board game Go.
Image Tags | female(s), game, male(s)
Google's Eric Schmidt: There's no question AI will put jobs at risk, but it's natural
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 13.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, threat
Summary | Eric Schmidt (Alphabet chairman) went to Seoul to watch world Go champion play with AlphaGo (Google's algorithm). World Go champion won his first game against the machine yesterday, but the machine had won the first three. Google has been investing a lot in artificial intelligence, and the company is especially interested in investing in healthcare and smartphone assistants.
Image Description | Portrait of Eric Schmidt, chart displaying Apple vs Google ($bn), two videos about the history of Google and Go game
Image Tags | chart, game, Google, male(s)
Pokemon Go: What is it, how to play it and everything you need to know
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 26.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | game, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | The augmented reality game Pokemon Go is now available in the UK. Users can catch Pokemons in real life thanks to their smartphone. Pokemon Go is a popular game around the world, but playing the game can be dangerous; there have been robberies, shootings, and car accidents because of the game.
Image Description | Screenshot of Charlotte Nice's tweet, two videos about the game, two photographs of hands holding a smartphone displaying the game Pokemon Go, four photographs about accidents and injuries linked to the game.
Image Tags | game, hand(s), smartphone, Twitter
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