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Microsoft tries new key to unlock artificial intelligence
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 5.2.2016
Language | English
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, texting, word/writing
Summary | Microsoft has been investing a lot into artificial intelligence in order to understand more about natural language processing. Microsoft just bought SwiftKey, a keyboard app that tries to guess which word you'll want to type in your text. The app tries to work like a human brain; it analyzes your writing style and tries to predict the future.
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Mark Zuckerbergs
(Mark Zuckerberg's)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 13.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Mark Zuckerberg has expressed the goal to design a digital assistant. It should be able to help users simplify some daily tasks. It should, for instance, be able to recognize the face of anyone ringing the doorbell and unlocking it if that person is allowed to enter. This could be particularly useful for the elders. It is however questionable whether Facebook's digital AI assitant can replace human companions or pets.
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Googles sprechender Assistent
(Google's speaking assistant)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 20.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google is launching a voice command assistant called "Google Home". Much like Amazon's Echo, it is a little speaker which picks up verbal commands from casual conversation and delivers answers to various questions or plays the music users request. Google's two decades of experience with online searches has given them enough data to be able to teach and AI robot what words mean in context.
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Googles künstlich intelligenter Chat-Freund
(Google's artificially intelligent chat friend)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 8.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, social media
Summary | Google is launching a new messaging app called Allo. Messaging apps are hailed to be the new thing after social media. Especially messaging apps lie the Chinese WeChat or Allo which have an AI assistant with which users can easily get simple information from within the app, transmit payments, or open a small shop that operates through the app.
Image Description | Reuters image of a man presenting Allo at a conference and a few screenshots of conversations with Allo's chatbot.
Image Tags | Google, male(s), text
Die Maschine erziehen und trainieren
(Raising and training the machine)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 20.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, computer programming, research/study, threat
Summary | Some researchers say that artificial intelligence may eliminate the need for human programmers. Modern programs are becoming more similar to human brains in that it is no longer just the programmer who creates every step of the program but the program itself is capable of learning from experience (technically: exposure to large amounts of data). Some find this idea that computers will become intellectual equals of humans frightening.
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Google en forte expansion à Zurich
(Google booming in Zurich)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 20.6.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | A new research group is going to start working on 'machine learning' in Zurich, Switzerland. The technique resorts to artificial intelligence. Research will focus on three parts: artificial intelligence, natural language comprehension and treatment, and artificial perception. Although computers are more and more powerful, they still have trouble distinguishing certain things that a 4-year old could notice.
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Schweizer Firmen setzen auf Bots
(Swiss firms put their money on bots)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 27.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, privacy
Summary | Many companies in Switzerland are testing out chatbots to replace their telephone customer service. Many company chatbots can be contacted via the Facebook messenger. They are quite useful because they can organize tasks according to content and delegate them to the appropriate departments or help the customers themselves. Experts demand full transparency about what happens to customer data created in chatbot uses.
Image Description | Getty image of a woman's torso holding a smartphone, some chatbot chat screenshots and graphs.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone, text
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'.
Try fast, fail fast, learn fast
Newspaper | Handelszeitung
Date | 28.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | In an interview with the Swisscom director Urs Schaeppi, the future and past of mobile technologies are discussed. Schaeppi is convinced that interconnectedness of electronic devices is key when thinking about future developments in mobile technologies. An example would be connecting smartphone with one’s car so that while driving, one could verbally ask the smartphone for directions which then communicates the information to the car navigation system. Language commands and better and broader internet connection are the main priorities for mobile communication.
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