Digital Discourse Database

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Alexa ist jetzt immer und überall

(Alexa is now anywhere, anytime)

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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

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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

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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)

Facebook shuts down robots after they invent their own language

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 1.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook decided to shut down two of artifical intelligence robots after they started conversing in their own language. Nevertheless, the project shows that we're closer to creating bots that can think, talk, and negotiate.
Image Description | Photograph of Mark Zuckerberg in front of a screen displaying "artificial intelligence", and timeline of artificial intelligence
Image Tags | chart, male(s)

Eine Sprache macht noch keinen Terminator

(A language does not make a terminator yet)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 2.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Recently Facebook had the biggest anxiety about artificial intelligence come true under their watch: two AI robots started talking to one another in a way that their programmers could not understand. They quickly killed the two robots. Elsewhere AI robots have been caught to lie strategically. They have omitted parts of the truth to get what they wanted in a simple negotiation.
Image Description | A Getty image of the terminator.
Image Tags | male(s)

Samsung launches Bixby voice assistant in the UK to rival Siri and Alexa

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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

Teaching A.I. Systems to Behave Themselves

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 13.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, threat
Summary | Artificial intelligence systems have made huge development leaps in recent times but there is still a lot of learning to do. The image recognition AI assistants of Facebook and Google demonstrate how, on the one hand, they can recognize a lot of images correctly if they have had enough data to learn from and, on the other hand, how it still makes bold mistakes. It suffices to manipulate a few pixels and the AI system gets confused. Developing AI systems not only takes a lot of data but also trial and error phases which are monitored and taught by human teachers.
Image Description | Programmers working on computers.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), male(s)

Germany Tells Sites to Delete Hate or Pay Up

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, fake news, law, threat
Summary | Germany has the strictest policies when it comes to illegalizing slanderous, threatening, and extremist language from public spaces. Germany has just passed a law that allows them to fine Facebook as much as 57 million dollars if they do not remove offensive content quickly enough from the platform. While some may say this is censorship , German lawmakers claim that respectful online encounters are a necessity for free speech to thrive. Facebook is now working on improving the flagging process for offensive material and are also using artificial intelligence to remove fake news.
Image Description | Blurry man looking at a smartphone with the Facebook logo in the background.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s), smartphone

YouTube Sets Policies To Restrict Extremism

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, threat, YouTube
Summary | Google has been using artificial intelligence to weed out offensive videos from YouTube and take them down. It is quite good at detecting nudity, graphic violence, and copyright violations. However, other less straightforward offensive material remains on the platform such as cultish sermons by extremist muslims. These are however not being monetized by displaying advertising next to them.
Image Description | An image of the London Tower and a portrait of a man.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)

Facebook Will Use Artificial Intelligence to Uncover Extremist Posts

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 15.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook, politics, threat
Summary | Facebook has been urged by both users and politicians to do more to combat extremist content on their platform. It is Facebook's responsibility to monitor the content they allow so as not to provide a safe space for extremists. Facebook has announced that they plan to employ artificial intelligence to help them flag extremist content.
Image Description | An image of a man and blurry silhouettes standing under a Facebook logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), logo, male(s)

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