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Quand l'intelligence artificielle invente un langage incompréhensible par l'homme

(When artificial intelligence invents an incomprehensible language to humans)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 24.6.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook programmed two chatbots so they could learn how to negotiate, but they invented a new language by themselves.
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Houseparty, l'autre application victime de la stratégie de copié-collé de Facebook

(Houseparty, the other app victim of Facebook's copy and paste strategy)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 14.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook, video communication
Summary | Ben Rubin et Sima Sistani created a new app called Houseparty, where up to 8 people can talk and see each other at the same time. The new app became very popular among young people. Fidji Simo, responsible of the video part of Facebook, contacted both Rubin and Sistani to talk to them about a potential purchase of their society, but they refused. Then, they discovered that Facebook introduced a new option into Messenger that allows conversations between up to 6 people. Facebook also said they want to launch a new app called "Bonfire" for group videos, which could kill Houseparty definitively.
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Un cerveau dans les réseaux

(A brain among networks)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 10.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Yann LeCun was hired by Zuckerberg to join the Facebook team in 2013. LeCun is a master of artificial intelligence, which is why he was hired. LeCun became interested in neural networks after reading a conversation between Chomsky and Piaget about language learning.
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Facebook place le business au coeur de sa messagerie

(Facebook places business at the heart of its messaging service)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 14.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | War bots has begun. Facebook is going to develop one of those devices that simulate human conversations thanks to artificial intelligence. Facebook wants to include on its social network all the online transactions (including commercial ones).
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Facebook: au «J'aime» s'ajoutent «J'adore», «Triste» ou «Grrr»

(Facebook: Besides "Like", "I love it", "Sad" or "Grrr" were added)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 24.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook introduced five new reaction buttons. They say they want to give people more possibilities to quickly share a reaction.
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