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Intelligence artificielle, du fantasme à la réalité
(Artificial intelligence, from fantasy to reality)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 23.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Artificial intelligence is very popular now, but it's nothing new; it was created in 1956. John McCarthy, Researchers Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester et Claude Shannon wanted to create an intelligent machine capable of understanding language, formulating abstract concepts, and solve problems that only humans would be able to solve. However, their research ends up being inconclusive. People will need to wait until 2012 to see something working with "deep learning". Facebook, IBM, Amazon, or Google have been investing in deep learning methods. Researchers claim that those intelligent machines should be ethical.
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La bataille fait rage autour des assistants personnels vocaux
(The battle rages around personal vocal assistants)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 6.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple are all investing in devices that allow people and machines to communicate. Those intelligent machines are personal assistants. Still, there are a few obstacles that we need to overcome: accept the fact that an object is constantly listening to you, and find a way to represent the diversity of accents and languages.
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Le français Snips lève 12 millions d'euros pour faire parler les objets du quotidien
(The French Snips raised 12 million Euros in order to make everyday objects talk)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.9.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy
Summary | The startup Snips developed a new technology that should allow objects to understand voice command without any internet connection, thanks to artificial intelligence. Snips wants to compete with Amazon, Google, Facebook or Microsoft. What Snips proposes is slightly different from what the other giants have. For instance, the French startup wants to offer solutions that are more respectful of people's privacy.
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Qu'est-ce qu'un chatbot?
(What is a chatbot?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 8.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, social media, texting
Summary | "Chatbot" comes from "chat" and "robot", and is a software that imitates human conversation and natural language. We can come across chatbots on certain companies' websites (e.g. SNCF, Orange, Fnac, Ikea). We can ask them questions online and they usually try to help us. Chatbots are particularly popular today, but the concept is now new; it started in 1960 a program called Eliza (from MIT). Today's softwares are more complex and powerful. They are increasingly used on social media and messaging apps.
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L'intelligence artificielle à l'assaut de nos logements
(Artificial intelligence launched an attack on our homes)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, texting
Summary | Artificial intelligence is getting closer to our homes. Many French companies want to make our lives at home easier, and artificial intelligence is the answer. For instance, HomeServe worked with natural language processing in order to create a virtual assistant that can solve breakdowns. Thanks to artificial intelligence, users can send a message to a chatbot (called Tom) and explain the problem/breakdown. Then, Tom identifies the breakdown and tries to find a way to solve it. This new assistant can also tell you how much the fixing will cost and schedule an appointment with a professional.
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Messenger met les marques en contact avec leurs clients
(Messenger brings together brands and their customers)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 12.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, marketing
Summary | Bots might be the future of big companies such as Facebook. In France, the train company SNCF and the insurance company Axa Shift were the first ones to introduce bots. Chatbots were born in 1950, but they only became popular with the introduction of Siri in 2011 (the iPhone's assistant). With bots, people will be able to book a cab or check their bank information on their phone. Bots wouldn't replace apps; they would make the use of apps easier.
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Viv, le nouvel assistant personnel des créateurs de Siri
(Viv, the new personal assistant of Siri's creators)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | The new personal assistant Viv is more efficient than Siri. Viv understands natural language and can answer complex questions and requests thanks to artificial intelligence.
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Google veut comprendre l'accent écossais
(Google wants to understand the Scottish accent)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.8.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google recruited Reddit users to analyze their language and improve the voice recognition tool Google Now. Virtual assistants such as Siri, Alexa, or Cortana often fail to recognize different English accents. The technology (machine learning) listens to a language until it can understand it well. Google wants to focus on Irish and Scottish accents because its virtual assistants seem to have trouble understanding them.
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Mattel lance une intelligence artificielle pour veiller sur les enfants
(Mattel launches an artificial intelligence tool to watch over children)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 5.1.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, childhood, privacy, smartphone
Summary | Mattel presented its new AI assistant to be used in children's bedrooms. The assistant (Aristotle) goes off if a child is crying in the middle of the night, for instance. Then, parents receive a notification on their smartphone. Aristotle is supposed to understand toddlers' language and to develop/evolve with them. The assistant can talk to toddlers and play music.
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Apple accélère dans l'intelligence artificielle
(Apple is moving faster in the field of artificial intelligence)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, privacy, research/study
Summary | Apple has a new research group that will be in charge of AI. With Siri, Apple was in fact one of the first companies to introduce chatbots. Nowadays, there are many personal assistants that are far better than Siri (e.g. Alexa and Google Assistant). Unlike Google or Facebook, Apple does not base its research and activities on people's personal information. However, to be efficient in the field of AI, a company needs a lot of personal data. This is why Facebook and Google are at the forefront of these technologies.
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