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La technologie est déjà omniprésente dans nos vies

(Technology is already omnipresent in our lives )

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Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 9.1.2018
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Artificial intelligence is everywhere, from smartphones to personal assistants. Personal assistants such as Echo or Home understand natural language, can interpret what they hear, and can for instance order a taxi and answer questions. Regarding facial recognition, Apple has launched its new Face ID system. Also, image recognition is better than ever: Google's latest smartphone is able to recognize precise objects.
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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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SmileTracker, l'application qui épie vos émotions

(SmileTracker, the app that is spying on your emotions)

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 27.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | SmileTracker is an app that can detect smiles thanks to a face recognition system. Users can gather all their pictures in one "smile gallery" and then share them on the SmileTracker website or Facebook. If people see those pictures, it can trigger positive emotions and a general well-being. This SmileTracker app is one of MIT's experiments. Researchers at MIT want to create machines capable of recognizing and measuring human emotions.
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Intelligence artificielle, du fantasme à la réalité

(Artificial intelligence, from fantasy to reality)

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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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Au-delà des fantasmes, quels sont les problèmes concrets que pose l'intelligence artificielle?

(Beyond fantasy, what are the real problems that poses artificial intelligence?)

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 4.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, threat
Summary | When Elon Musk said that robots were killing people and that we should be worried about that, Mark Zuckerberg replied that Musk's ideas were irresponsible and also praised the advances of artificial intelligence. Even if Musk's pessimism seems exaggerated, artificial intelligence raises some concerns and problems (e.g. impact on jobs, racist and sexist softwares, creation of autonomous weapons, surveillance problems, etc.)
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La bataille fait rage autour des assistants personnels vocaux

(The battle rages around personal vocal assistants)

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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)

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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?)

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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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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)

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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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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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