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Alexa ist jetzt immer und überall
(Alexa is now anywhere, anytime)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 28.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Amazon has presented many devices which operate with Alexa, their artificially intelligent assistant. Actually, all Amazon devices now incorporate Alexa, except Kindle. They aspire that Alexa become a member of the family, present in all parts of your house - including the garage and even the bedroom, as well as your car. Amazon has made a deal with BMW Seattle that their on-board assistant will be Amazon's Alexa. Other tech firms like Google, Apple, and Samsung also offer AI assistants.
Image Description | A series of Amazon's AI devices presented by hands or entire men.
Image Tags | hand(s), male(s)
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
'Siri, I was raped': Study finds smartphone assistants unable to respond to help in a crisis
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 15.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, research/study
Summary | Smartphone personal assistants have been tested and they seem to be unable to respond well to help in a crisis (e.g. suicide, rape, abuse). Developers need to do more in order to improve those personal assistants.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen displaying the message "what can I help you with?", woman hiding her face with her hands, man speaking to his phone, man hiding his face with his hands, a woman's hands using a smartphone
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
What are AirPods and why has Apple dropped the headphone jack?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | Apple announced that the new iPhone 7 would not have any headphone jack; instead, they will introduce wireless headphones (AirPods). The future is wireless, and the goal is to make headphones smarter.
Image Description | Two videos introducing the headphones, photographs of the headphones, screenshot of Lance Ulanoff's tweet about the headphones, photograph of a man wearing an AirPod, screenshot of James Titcomb's tweet, photograph of a hand holding the AirPods and another hand taking a picture of the AirPods with an iPhone.
Image Tags | hand(s), headphones, male(s), smartphone
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
Jetzt wird endlich auch im Duden getindert
(Finally tindering will be in the dictionary )
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 24.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, online dating, word/writing
Summary | The new edition of the Duden dictionary is reflecting the ongoing digitalization. New additions to the dictionary include the verb "tindering" which means to use the online dating app Tinder, as well as "social bot" which reflects the advent of artificial intelligence in contemporary life.
Image Description | Picture alliance image of hands holding a smartphone showing a male profile on Tinder.
Image Tags | hand(s), male(s), smartphone, Tinder
Dieser Chatbot reserviert den Tisch fürs Abendessen
(This chatbot makes dinner reservations)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, language threat, youth
Summary | Facebook messenger now has the chatbot Botmio on offer which lets users make dinner reservations at restaurants. This is perfect for younger generations who are reluctant to pick up the phone to call a human to make a reservation - digital natives are "language lazy". They would rather just make a reservation online without interacting with another human.
Image Description | A hand holding a smartphone using a Facebook chatbot and a portrait of the Botmio inventer.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), male(s), smartphone
Wenn das Handy antwortet: So zahlen wir in Zukunft
(When the phone responds: this is how we will pay in the future)
Newspaper | Handelszeitung
Date | 2.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, smartphone
Summary | Various companies like Google and Amazon are coming up with new conversational commerce solutions, i.e. (voice command) chatbots with which one can conversationally make purchases online. Making payments via smartphone apps is very common in China while Switzerland is lagging behind. Some companies like Mastercard are already working on further ways to pay, namely by verbal cues. This means that people will only have to say it to secure the payment.
Image Description | Two informational videos and a series of photos from a technology convention.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet
Innovation in AI could see governments introduce human quotas, study says
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 4.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, law, threat
Summary | With the increasing development of artificial intelligence, we can expect that a lot of jobs will be done by robots in the not-so-distant future. It is possible that human quota will have to be introduced or labels such as "made by humans". It is also unclear who is accountable in the case of an accident involving a robot.
Image Description | Robot and human shaking hands.
Image Tags | hand(s), male(s)
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