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Teaching A.I. Systems to Behave Themselves
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 13.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, threat
Summary | Artificial intelligence systems have made huge development leaps in recent times but there is still a lot of learning to do. The image recognition AI assistants of Facebook and Google demonstrate how, on the one hand, they can recognize a lot of images correctly if they have had enough data to learn from and, on the other hand, how it still makes bold mistakes. It suffices to manipulate a few pixels and the AI system gets confused. Developing AI systems not only takes a lot of data but also trial and error phases which are monitored and taught by human teachers.
Image Description | Programmers working on computers.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), male(s)
YouTube Sets Policies To Restrict Extremism
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, threat, YouTube
Summary | Google has been using artificial intelligence to weed out offensive videos from YouTube and take them down. It is quite good at detecting nudity, graphic violence, and copyright violations. However, other less straightforward offensive material remains on the platform such as cultish sermons by extremist muslims. These are however not being monetized by displaying advertising next to them.
Image Description | An image of the London Tower and a portrait of a man.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Warum wir nie wieder Smalltalk machen müssen
(Why we never have to do smalltalk again)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 4.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, threat
Summary | Chatbots operated with artificial intelligence like Google's Allo will soon obliterate our need to engage in smalltalk. It can suggest appropriate or social expected responses to generic messages and other content. It can for example recognize an image of food and suggest to respond "yummy!". This can be convenient but it can also result in chatbots essential talking to other chatbots in the name of their human users.
Image Description | Getty image illustration showing a man and a microchip.
Image Tags | male(s)
« Google a toujours été une entreprise d'intelligence artificielle »
("Google has always been an artificial intelligence company")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 18.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Google, threat, translation
Summary | The project Google Brain focuses on machine learning and deep learning. The founder of the project, Greg Corrado, claims that Google has always been an artificial intelligence company. Deep learning has changed the ways in which machines learn. One of the goals of deep learning will be to improve machine translation. Voice recognition works well now, but machine translation is not perfect yet. Regarding ethical questions and safety, Corrado says that we should have an open discussion.
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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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Google's future is useful, creepy and everywhere: nine things learned at I/O
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 18.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, privacy, threat
Summary | Google presented their new technology and their main focus is artificial intelligence. Google's Assistant is now proactively listening and making suggestion (for instance to leave the house early because of traffic) without users having to activate it by saying "OK Google". It will also be available accross devices. Google are attempting to replace Siri on Apple devices. Google's Assistant is much better developed in being able to understand colloquial commands. They are also working on connecting their Assistant with the camera, so that one could hold up the phone to a restaurant and get reviews about that restaurant pulled up. This has huge potential for making the lives of visually impaired people easier.
Image Description | Reuters and Getty images of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and the Google Assistant home speaker.
Image Tags | female(s), Google, male(s), YouTube
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