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Les objets connectés bientôt plus nombreux que les mobiles
(Connected objects will soon outnumber mobile phones)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 1.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | research/study, smartphone
Summary | According to Ericsson, in two years there will be more connected objects than smartphones in the whole world. Today, connected objects are cheaper, and more and more apps are being created.
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Peut-on repérer une personne dépressive grâce à ses photos Instagram?
(Can you spot a depressed person through his/her Instagram photos?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 24.8.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Instagram, research/study
Summary | Researchers have created an agorithm that is able to spot depressed people thanks to their Instagram photos. They studied 500 Amazon Mechanical Turk employees. The results show that depressed people's photos tend to be darker than the average Instagram photos, and they also tend to focus on blue and grey. Thanks to the study, researchers hope to be able to prevent depression in the future.
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Apple accélère dans l'intelligence artificielle
(Apple is moving faster in the field of artificial intelligence)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, privacy, research/study
Summary | Apple has a new research group that will be in charge of AI. With Siri, Apple was in fact one of the first companies to introduce chatbots. Nowadays, there are many personal assistants that are far better than Siri (e.g. Alexa and Google Assistant). Unlike Google or Facebook, Apple does not base its research and activities on people's personal information. However, to be efficient in the field of AI, a company needs a lot of personal data. This is why Facebook and Google are at the forefront of these technologies.
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