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Non, Facebook n'a pas «paniqué» à cause d'un programme d'IA capable d'inventer un langage
(No, Facebook didn't "panick" because of an AI program capable of inventing a language)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 1.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Dhruv Batra, a researcher in artificial intelligence, read many Facebook posts and tweets describing apocalyptic scenes about the fact that artificial intelligence had invented a new language. Batra wrote an article denouncing how the media portrayed the event. When Facebook programmed two bots to teach them how to negotiate, employees noticed that the bots had invented their own language. The new language was based on English vocabulary; therefore, it was more or less comprehensible. But since the program was not working the way it was supposed to work, workers modified it. They didn't "kill" it, so there is no reason to panick.
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Facebook: «Nous voulons faire d'Internet une “no-go zone" pour les terroristes»
(Facebook: "We want to make the Internet a "no-go zone" for terrorists)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 16.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook just issued a statement where they explain how they want to fight propaganda and terrorism. Monika Bickert and Brian Fishman talk about why they released the statement now, the technology used to fight terrorism, artificial intelligence, privacy, and threatening content.
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La leçon d'un maître de l'intelligence artificielle au Collège de France
(The lesson of a master of artificial intelligence at the Collège de France)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 4.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Yann LeCun is a master of artificial intelligence; he will be at the Collège de France on Feb. 4th. LeCun was inspired by Chomsky and Piaget's debate about innate or acquired language; later, he did his PhD on artifical neurons. He joined Facebook in 2013. Thanks to his research, our cell phones' assistants can now recognize human voice, and people's faces can be identified in pictures. LeCun also invented "deep learning".
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L'algorithme qui comprend les contes pour enfants
(The algorithm that understands children's tales)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 28.2.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, research/study
Summary | One of Facebook's research labs on artificial intelligence created an algorithm capable of understanding and remembering texts. The algorithm is even better than the "tale's text". The essence of intelligence is the capacity to predict, which is also one of the goals of artificial intelligence. Chatbots don't understand the questions that people ask; they actually react to keywords.
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Sur Facebook, la façon de s'exprimer des hommes et des femmes diffère
(On Facebook, men and women express themselves differently)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 2.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | A group of researchers analyzed 68000 Facebook posts to identify language/communication differences between men and women. Men tend to be "colder", to swear more, and to talk more about sports, politics and video games. Women tend to talk more about social relationships and to describe positive emotions.
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Après sa version haoussa, Facebook se lance en peul
(After its Hausa version, Facebook introduces the Fula language )
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | Facebook is now available in Fula. The Fula language is mostly spoken from Mauritania to Sudan, and is the 101st Facebook language. Ibrahima Sarr, who is part of the translators' team, asked if it would be possible to introduce the new language. With the help of the team, they were able to do it. Last summer, Facebook introduced another African language: Hausa.
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Le «nouvel eldorado» des «bots»
(The "new eldorado" of "bots")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 16.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook Messenger's boss claims that consumers will use messaging apps more and more, at the expense of emails, phones, and mobile apps. Other people have also been privileging the conversational mode in the service industry: Kik's boss (Ted Livingston) uses "bots", which are robots that simulate human conversations. For instance, if you're hungry, you can order a pizza using Domino's pizza's bot. A similar trend is happening in China with WeChat. What is interesting about WeChat is the fact that it can give out personal information to product and service suppliers.
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La «dictée par la pensée» sur laquelle travaille Facebook n'est pas encore pour demain
(The "mind dictation", on which Facebook is working, is not for tomorrow)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 17.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Facebook
Summary | At a Facebook conference on April 19th, it was announced that Facebook is working on a new project that should allow people to type directly from their mind/thoughts. Researchers want to decode language in order to allow people to type their thoughts. The goal would be to type 100 words per minute based on a person's thoughts. Decoding language directly from the brain is difficult. Moreover, Facebook is facing a major difficulty with the sensor technology they want to develop. Finally, besides technical difficulties, there are also ethical ones.
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« Lol » est mort, vive le « haha » !
("Lol" is dead, long lives "haha"!)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 12.8.2015
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | According to Facebook analysts, "lol" is dying out. In their study, they found out that only 1,9% of internet users use "lol" and 51,4% of them use "haha". Laughing emojis are used by 33,7% of internet users. "Lol" seems to be used by 30-year old men whereas emojis are mostly used by females under 20.
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