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Darauf können sich auch alte iPhone-Nutzer jetzt freuen
(This is what even old iPhone users can look forward to)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 19.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, smartphone, texting, translation, WhatsApp
Summary | The new iPhone operational system has a couple of new updates. There will be a new control unit and user surface making the iPhone increasingly similar to a full Mac. The in-house messenger iMessage has a lot of new emojis and stickers and allows the users to be more creative with their texting. It is however still no threat to WhatsApp because only Apple users can use iMessage. Siri no also speaks a bunch of new languages: she will be able to translate English into German, Chinese, Spanish, French or Italian.
Image Description | A screenshot of iOS 11.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Neuronales Netzwerk beschreibt Fotos für Blinde
(Neuron network describes pictures for blind people)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, diversity, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is testing a new function that tells blind users what is depicted by an image on Facebook. The system does not need human input to recognize the content of images - it has been feed with millions of images to "learn" to recognize certain things like the outdoors and sports. This is a way to include people with visual disabilities better on social media because a lot of the activity there is visual.
Image Description | Facebook feed with photographs explained.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), male(s)
Diese Technik soll uns den Alltag erleichtern
(This technology should make our daily lives easier)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 5.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy, research/study, smartphone, translation
Summary | Computer are becoming more and more intertwined in our daily lives. Some smartphones can already translate real-time conversations with imitating the speakers voice thanks to advances in voice recognition. Image recognition has also advanced substantially to being able to "read" moods, age, and attractiveness of the photographed individuals. Research is being done for smartphones and other devices to monitor body odor, sweat (to allet to dehydration), or tear liquid (for diabetics).
Image Description | Various simple visualizations of smartphones/devices interacting with people (depicted by emojis), body parts, et cetera.
Image Tags | chart, emojis, female(s), smartphone
IQ ist nicht alles
(IQ is not everything)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 1.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain
Summary | Intelligence and expecially at the level of the gifted individuals can only blossom when it is nurtured, i.e. when learning is encouraged. For this, concentration is required and in this day and age the distractions of digital devices can hinder the development of one's intellectual potential. Multi-tasking as such is a myth. one might wonder whether artificial intelligence will lead to the demise of human intelligence.
Image Description | An EP image of Orson Welles (film director), a Getty image of Anne-Sophie Mutter (violinist), and an EPA image of Stephen Hawking (physicist).
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
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
Oh mein Bot!
(Oh my bot!)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 2.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook messenger offers a lot of chatbots. They are however not very good - yet. They are most useful for finding out simple information quickly, quicker than if one were to google, say, the weather forecast. Developers are constantly working on improving chatbots. The most quickly developing technology is voice recognition so that people can speak with chatbots.Contrary to science fiction belief however, programmers have no intentions of making chatbots seem as human as possible - they should be efficient not mistaken for an actual person.
Image Description | Getty image of a CGI woman with a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), tablet
Schweizer Firmen setzen auf Bots
(Swiss firms put their money on bots)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 27.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, privacy
Summary | Many companies in Switzerland are testing out chatbots to replace their telephone customer service. Many company chatbots can be contacted via the Facebook messenger. They are quite useful because they can organize tasks according to content and delegate them to the appropriate departments or help the customers themselves. Experts demand full transparency about what happens to customer data created in chatbot uses.
Image Description | Getty image of a woman's torso holding a smartphone, some chatbot chat screenshots and graphs.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone, text
Chat mit einem Untoten: "Ich vermisse dich auch"
(Chat with an undead: "I miss you too")
Newspaper | Spiegel Online
Date | 29.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | A Russian programmer has made a deceased friend of hers into an artificial intelligence robot. She used all their numerous Facebook conversations to feed the robot so that it could learn his manneurisms. The toughest part is to teach a computer how to understand all non-literal meaninings we casually use while communicating.
Image Description | Image of the programmer and her friend.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
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