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Des chatbots rebelles désactivés en Chine

(Rebellious chatbots deactivated in China)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 4.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship
Summary | Two Chinese chatbots have been deactivated after they criticized the Communist Party. One of the chatbots -available on a popular messaging app- answered "no" to the question "do you like the Communist Party?".
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Les robots sont idiots

(Robots are stupid)

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Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 20.8.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, translation
Summary | Automatic online translations are sometimes incomprehensible and stupid. The author of the article provides a few examples of weird translations she saw. She was also not convinced by the Facebook translation button he used to translate someone's page.
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« Google a toujours été une entreprise d'intelligence artificielle »

("Google has always been an artificial intelligence company")

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 18.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Google, threat, translation
Summary | The project Google Brain focuses on machine learning and deep learning. The founder of the project, Greg Corrado, claims that Google has always been an artificial intelligence company. Deep learning has changed the ways in which machines learn. One of the goals of deep learning will be to improve machine translation. Voice recognition works well now, but machine translation is not perfect yet. Regarding ethical questions and safety, Corrado says that we should have an open discussion.
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Malgré d'impressionnants progrès, la traduction automatique a encore du chemin à parcourir

(Despite tremendous progress, machine translation still has a long way to go)

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 19.5.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, translation
Summary | Facebook, TripAdvisor, and Google Chrome often ask users if they want to translate their content into French. Translations have improved, but translated texts can still be imperfect and odd. Still, translated texts are usually good enough to allow people to understand original texts. Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are still trying to improve their translation tools to make them faster and more accurate.
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