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Schnauze, Bot!
(Shut up, bot!)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 3.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, computer programming, Facebook, threat
Summary | News broke that two artificially intelligent Facebook chatbots, Bob and Alice, began communicating with one another using a language that not even their programmers could understand. The programmers then proceeded to kill the chatbots. Some may see this as a threat that artificial intelligence could overpower humans but the messages between the chatbots just operated on a different logic than human linguistic logic and did not seem very threatening at all.
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«In Japan steht für Danke, im Westen für Beten»
("In Japan it means thank you, in the West it signals praying")
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 20.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing, misunderstanding, research/study, texting, translation
Summary | Keith Broni, one of the first emoji translators world-wide, has been chosen from 500 applicants. He has researched the use of emojis at the University of London and he is an expert of how people from different cultures understand emojis. He works as a makerting consultant to various companies and advises them on how to use emojis as a corporation. Using emojis can be fraught with risk as hand gestures can mean very different things in different cultures. Even within the same culture emoji use can be risky. At this point, it is more risky not to use any emojis in casual texting because of the negativity effect which means that messsages without emojis seem cold or distanced.
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Die Maschine erziehen und trainieren
(Raising and training the machine)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 20.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, computer programming, research/study, threat
Summary | Some researchers say that artificial intelligence may eliminate the need for human programmers. Modern programs are becoming more similar to human brains in that it is no longer just the programmer who creates every step of the program but the program itself is capable of learning from experience (technically: exposure to large amounts of data). Some find this idea that computers will become intellectual equals of humans frightening.
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Maschinen sind nicht die besseren Menschen
(Machines are the better people)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 14.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, diversity, gender, translation
Summary | One could think that artificial intelligence robots are not racist or sexist but because they learn from information circulating on the internet, they are subject to the biases as most poeple. This is why a beauty contest judged by an AI robot favored white people as more beautiful. Online job listings can also be biased based on gender so that women will not see higher-paying job listings or gender inclusive language gets lost in translation.
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Jeu capeschel nout!
(I don’t understand anything!)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 8.6.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | language threat, translation
Summary | Experts predict the digital extinction of ‘smaller’ languages online. The global lingua franca -particularly in the digital sphere- is English, and it will come to displace all other languages in the digital sphere. Many translation services (e.g. Skype translator) achieve better results when translating into English than into German for instance. Governments should fund the creation of online services in their national languages. The Welsh government has already set up a fund for the creation of Welsh online services while the Swiss National Foundation (SNF) has no such plans for the creation of Romansh online content.
Image Description | Screenshot of the movie Star Trek: Mr. Spock is holding a translation device.
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