Number of Posts: 21
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Siri, Cortana, Now, M, Alexa... la guerre des assistants virtuels est déclarée
(Siri, Cortana, Now, M, Alexa... war of virtual assistants is declared )
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 3.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Echo is Amazon's new virtual assistant. Named Alexa, she can answer your questions, turn on the music, or turn down the heat. The market related to those AI products reached 277 million of dollars in 2015, and might reach 2 billion of dollars in 2024 thanks to progress in natural language processing.
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L'intelligence artificielle a-t-elle cessé d'être bête ?
(Has artificial intelligence stopped from being dumb?)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 9.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain
Summary | Deep learning techniques have allowed progress in the field of image recognition and natural language processing. The software AlphaGo has finally won against South Korean champion Lee Sedol. Yann LeCun claims that in 10 to 15 years, every car will be autonomous and that maybe it will be impossible for people to drive a car since human beings are less reliable than computers. Claude Berrou is also very optimistic regarding the potential of deep learning.
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Les youtubeuses mode, une véritable industrie
(Fashion youtubers, a real industry)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 27.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | marketing, YouTube
Summary | A showroom called "Get Beauty" is going to gather 70 YouTube vloggers. Together, the 70 female youtubers have 1,5 billion viewed videos. Thanks to brand content, the trend is becoming a real industry. 9 out of 10 people have already bought a product after watching a video on YouTube. Those fashion youtubers have the same language as their target audience.
Image Description | Collage of various female youtubers.
Image Tags | female(s)
Les nouveaux terrains de jeu des géants du Net
(The new playground of the internet giants)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 22.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, virtual reality
Summary | Google is going to launch "Home", an intelligent assistant that will be able to answer its users' questions, schedule an appointment, or answer emails. Google wants to catch up with Amazon, that released "Echo". Google also presented "Allo", an intelligent messaging app that can answer people's answers. Finally, Google also relies on virtual reality with its new platform called Daydream. Facebook presented something similar with its helmet "Oculus".
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Microsoft mise sur les « chatbots » pour remplacer les applications
(Microsoft relies on "chatbots" in order to replace apps)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 1.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Instant messaging apps are evolving and changing into "super platforms" where chatbots can help users book a flight ticket, or choose the type of cheese they want on their pizza. However, this new technology has its flaws; one of Microsoft's chatbots released a racist statement. Thanks to chatbots, people wouldn't need to use apps anymore.
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Facebook place le business au coeur de sa messagerie
(Facebook places business at the heart of its messaging service)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 14.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | War bots has begun. Facebook is going to develop one of those devices that simulate human conversations thanks to artificial intelligence. Facebook wants to include on its social network all the online transactions (including commercial ones).
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Jean-Marc Patouillaud: L'ère des « bots »
(Jean-Marc Patouillaud: the era of "bots")
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 18.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | People spend an average of three hours a day on their mobile phone. Most of the time, they are using apps -more specifically, messaging apps such as Messenger, WeChat, Whats-App, and Snapchat. Those apps allow people to do different things; for instance, WeChat users can exchange videos and contact their doctor. The latest trend: invisible apps (bots) that anticipate users' needs.
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Google lance un assistant personnel numérique familial
(Google launches a family digital personal assistant )
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 20.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google launched "Google Home", a personal assistant similar to what Amazon, Facebook, or Microsoft have. People will be able to ask Google Home to play a song, translate a word, give a piece of information, change a restaurant reservation, or answer emails. Progress in the field of machine learning has made those personal assistants more efficient.
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Facebook: au «J'aime» s'ajoutent «J'adore», «Triste» ou «Grrr»
(Facebook: Besides "Like", "I love it", "Sad" or "Grrr" were added)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 24.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook introduced five new reaction buttons. They say they want to give people more possibilities to quickly share a reaction.
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Twitter: le bonheur est à Marseille
(Twitter: Happiness is in Marseille)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 5.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, research/study
Summary | Visibrain conducted a study to find out what the happiest tweets are. According to Visibrain, the tweets from Marseille are the closest to happiness. They focused their research on tweets containing emojis. Perhaps southern climate influences Twitter's mood -the second "happiest" city on Twitter is Nice.
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