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2016: the year AI came of age
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 28.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Artificial intelligence is everywhere now; from period-tracking apps to food delivery apps. Companies want to integrate AI into their apps in order to provide the best services. 2011 was an important year for AI with the introduction of Siri, Apple's digital personal assistant. Since then, AI has gone a long way. The next step that DeepMind (research lab) wants to reach is instant voice-to-voice translation.
Image Description | Photograph of three South Korean people, photograph of a man standing in a room full of computers, photograph of Amazon's personal assistant Echo in the foreground and a person in the background
Image Tags | computer/laptop, male(s)
Put away your keyboard: It’s time to talk to our computers
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 8.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | We've been using graphical user interfaces on our computers for years now. Thanks to pointers and buttons, we can navigate the devices we own. In the future, we might only have to talk to our computer to get something done. Thanks to major advances in artificial intelligence, our computers are able to recognize our voice and interpret speech. The difficulty has been to create a software capable of answering us, but we're headed in that direction (e.g. Siri, Cortana, Echo, etc.).
Image Description | Portrait of Joaquin Phoenix, photograph of an old Xerox, photograph of a man speaking in front of the Microsoft logo, photograph of Amazon's Echo
Image Tags | computer/laptop, male(s)
Taking poetic license with AI personalities
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 7.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, gender, research/study
Summary | Artificial intelligence assistants are now being creatively enganced by educated and professional writers and poets so as to make their conversation appear more human-like (f.i. by using emojis) and their personalities more authentic. Polls have shown that users prefer female voices for AI assistants and most companies have acted accordingly. Microsoft has however pre-empted reinforcing stereotypes about female assistants by limiting the number of apologies and self-deprecating comments for their AI assistant Cortana.
Image Description | Image of a meeting of professional writers working in AI at Microsoft.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), male(s)
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