Number of Posts: 42
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'Chatbots' are coming
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 7.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, research/study, WhatsApp
Summary | The future is artificially intelligent. All major digital companies seem to see the most potential in messenger-based, artificially intelligent chatbots. Studies have shown that people value messaging services most highly on their smartphones so any innovation needs to be accessible through a messaging service. WhatsApp is a very significant one, it has 900 mio users.
Image Description | Getty image of Mark Zuckerberg in front of the Facebook Messenger logo and a screenshot of an Uber chatbot conversation.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s)
'Chat bots' ready to take aim at big money
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 13.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing
Summary | Facebook is opening its messenger to businesses. They can now market their services on the Facebook messenger and enable users to make purchases or talk to cusomer service through the messenger. The service is operated by artificial intelligence chatbots and is an attempt by Facebook to "own more of consumers' 'mobile moments.' "
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'Chatbot' chatter picking up steam
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 8.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | At the annual software developer conference people think that Mark Zuckerberg will open up to chatbots for Facebook Messenger. Chatbots use artificial intelligence and simulate human conversation. For instance, they can help users book a flight, or order something. Chatbots are popular in Asia, where users can schedule doctor's appointments or buy shoes thanks to WeChat, a messaging app that uses chatbots. Microsoft also talked about bots last week; they are becoming more and more popular.
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Apple (finally!) gives Siri more work to do
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, virtual reality
Summary | At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple lagged behind Amazon, Google and Facebook in terms of artificial intelligence. At the conference, Apple didn't talk much about virtual reality or augmented reality; it rather focused on Siri and the fact that it will open up to third-pary developers. At the conference, a few characteristics stood out: Apple watch, tv OS, MacOS Sierra, and iOS 10.
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I have seen the future, and it looks like chatbots
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 18.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, marketing, texting
Summary | Chatbots are robots that simulate human conversations; they are becoming popular among retailers who use them for online shopping. For instance, Sephora and H&M have been using bots that help customers buy their products. Experts predict that bots will be at the center of our digital life in the future. People at Silicon Valley are now trying to develop new concepts to integrate bots into messaging apps.
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Mobile Devices' Built-In Keyboards Aren't the Last Word
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, smartphone, spelling, texting
Summary | The built-in keyboards that we have on our smartphones are the only options available. Gboard, a third-party keyboard app works the same way and also offers punctuation and emoji options. Gboard also offers some extras: for instance, its space bar also works as a track pad, and it incorporated a search feature into the keyboard. On Gboard, you can also glide-type. Another third-party keyboard app is SwiftKey. It's good at autocorrecting mistakes thanks to artificial intelligence. Finally, there are other available apps: Fleksy, Swype, and Microsoft's Word Flow.
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Adding an Artistic Touch to Phone Snapshots
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 4.8.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Prisma is a new popular photo app; the app takes a pictures and transforms it into something new. The result looks like a paintbrush created by an artist. The app uses artificial intelligence but does not use filters.
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On Twitter, a Battle Among Political Bots
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, fake news, politics, Twitter
Summary | People on social media are often discussing/debating with bots when it comes to politics. A lot of bots are created to misinform the public (they are called protests bots or propaganda bots). During the 2016 US Presidential election, many tweets with the hashtag MAGA or CrookedHillary came from automated bots.
Image Description | Photograph of people at a rally for Trump, photograph of a street with many police cars, and screenshots of several tweets
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), Twitter
How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping The Visually Impaired
Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 11.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, artificial intelligence
Summary | The discourse around artificial intelligence is usually centered around how it will make tons of jobs obsolete. What few people think about however, is the tremendous potential artificial intelligence has to improve the life of visually impaired or blind people. The same technology that is being developed to operate self-driving cars can be used to help visually impaired people read or recognize people on the street by face recognition cameras.
Image Description | Person using AI camera to read and photograph of interviewee.
Image Tags | male(s)
Ask Alexa? No, Hear This Alexa
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 16.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, threat
Summary | Amazon's new chatbot Alexa is constructed to make life easier for us: it is an assistant that gets you the information you need or fetches (orders) groceries for you. You can operated without hands by simply calling "Alexa" and the microphone and speaker station will 'wake up' to follow your instruction. But while the artificial intelligence bot learns to be more humanoid from us, we are likely to lose human interactional abilities if we start speaking with robots on regular basis.
Image Description | Image of the Echo devices (microphone and speaker station for Alexa) in a storage unit.
Image Tags | speaker
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