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Dieser Chatbot reserviert den Tisch fürs Abendessen
(This chatbot makes dinner reservations)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, language threat, youth
Summary | Facebook messenger now has the chatbot Botmio on offer which lets users make dinner reservations at restaurants. This is perfect for younger generations who are reluctant to pick up the phone to call a human to make a reservation - digital natives are "language lazy". They would rather just make a reservation online without interacting with another human.
Image Description | A hand holding a smartphone using a Facebook chatbot and a portrait of the Botmio inventer.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), male(s), smartphone
Arbeitsagentur startet Berufsberatung per Whatsapp
(Employment agency starts career counseling via WhatsApp)
Newspaper | Leipziger Volkszeitung
Date | 20.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, youth
Summary | A local employment agency is offering a chatbot service via WhatsApp to help school graduates find a suitable career path. In a series of eight multiple choice questions, students are assigned to one of four professional realms to help them navigate the broad career fields ahead of them. Student's responses to the chatbot are encouraged with short answers like "good answer!" or humorous GIFs.
Image Description | Close-up shot of the employment agency sign with a man in the background walking by.
Image Tags | male(s)
Love Machine
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 27.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, youth
Summary | Chinese chat robot Xiaoice is gaining popularity among teenagers. Many admit their love to the robot despite knowing that they are communicating with a machine. Xiaoice has even done the weather forecast on TV and achieved a score of 4.32 (out of 5) in linguistic naturalism. This example shows how far the development of AI has come. While robots still cannot think or are intelligent in the human sense, they can recognize patterns very quickly and can observe huge amounts of data. The robot thus compares language input to data from online chat forums to construct an appropriate answer.
Image Description | Screenshot of a scene from the movie 'Ex Machina'.
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