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Le neuroscientifique Michel Desmurget, associé à des personnalités du monde du spectacle, met en garde contre l'effet délétère des écrans récréatifs, en lieu et place de la présence humaine, sur le développement des enfants
(The neuroscientist Michel Desmurget, together with other celebrities, warns against the deleterious effect of screens (used instead of human presence) on children's development )
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 6.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, childhood, research/study, threat
Summary | According to numerous studies, children need human contact and culture in order to develop normally. Nowadays, digital screens are slowly replacing human presence; however, studies show that digital devices are toxic. The other bad news is that people don't believe in funding culture. But we need culture to feed our mind.
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Intelligence artificielle: les géants du Web lancent un partenariat sur l'éthique
(Artificial Intelligence: Web giants launch partnership on ethics)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 1.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, law, research/study, threat
Summary | Artificial intelligence is spreading, which can be worrying. Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon decided to create the "Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society" in order to answer ethical questions, and do more research on the impact of new technologies on society. Another goal of the project is to educate people, listen to them, and be transparent with them. Stephen Hawking thinks that AI could end humanity, and Elon Musk claims that it could be more dangerous than atomic bombs.
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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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Intelligence artificielle: Google lance un groupe de recherche européen sur l'apprentissage
(Artificial intelligence: Google starts a European research group on learning)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 20.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, research/study, threat
Summary | In Zurich, Switzerland, Google started a new research group on artificial intelligence that will focus on "deep learning" and machine learning. The goals of the research will be to help computers to better understand language, and to help researchers to better understand how machine learning works. Some people such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk warned us against the potential risks of AI.
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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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L'intelligence artificielle reproduit aussi le sexisme et le racisme des humains
(Artificial intelligence also reproduces human beings' sexism and racism)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 15.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, gender, research/study, threat
Summary | Gender stereotypes are reproduced in some artificial intelligence programs. Researchers at the University of Stanford show how machine learning can replicate people's biases. They based their research on a technology called GloVe, which is trained to look for common associations. The technology points to some problematic associations that illustrate sexism and racism. The fact that AI follows people's prejudices can have some serious consequences, so people are trying to find solutions against AI's biases.
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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.
Image Description | Photograph of a dictionary page with a big LOL in the middle of the page.
Image Tags | dictionary
Les « emoji » constituent-ils un langage à part entière?
(Are emojis part of a fully-fledged language?)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 15.3.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, research/study
Summary | In 2015, an emoji was chosen as the word of the year, and two years before that, the novel Moby Dick was translated in emojis. Emojis are everywhere; are they becoming a new universal language? Two linguists conducted a study and revealed that emojis are like a cultural mirror. They also investigated emoji use in different countries and revealed geographical differences in the type of emoji used. Emojis are not a language; they are a complement to language. Some people might think it’s a language because emojis look like hieroglyphics. Emojis are mostly used to transmit emotions.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand clicking on several emojis on a screen, and screenshot of Andy Murray's tweet composed of emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), tablet, Twitter
« LOL » et « omg » menacés par les « emoji », selon Instagram
("LOL" and "omg" threated by "emojis", according to Instagram)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 7.5.2015
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Instagram, research/study, translation
Summary | Instagram conducted a study on emojis, and revealed that they tend to replace certain Internet expressions. Today, half of Instagram posts have emojis. The use of emojis is changing people’s Instagram language. This language change led someone to translate an entire book (Moby Dick) in emojis. The Instagram search engine now allows people to look for posts using emojis.
Image Description | Two charts: one showing the use of internet slang compared to emojis, and the other showing the breakdown of emoji use on Instagram by country.
Images of three emojis.
Image Tags | chart, emojis
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