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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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Google veut comprendre l'accent écossais
(Google wants to understand the Scottish accent)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.8.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google recruited Reddit users to analyze their language and improve the voice recognition tool Google Now. Virtual assistants such as Siri, Alexa, or Cortana often fail to recognize different English accents. The technology (machine learning) listens to a language until it can understand it well. Google wants to focus on Irish and Scottish accents because its virtual assistants seem to have trouble understanding them.
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Mattel lance une intelligence artificielle pour veiller sur les enfants
(Mattel launches an artificial intelligence tool to watch over children)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 5.1.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, childhood, privacy, smartphone
Summary | Mattel presented its new AI assistant to be used in children's bedrooms. The assistant (Aristotle) goes off if a child is crying in the middle of the night, for instance. Then, parents receive a notification on their smartphone. Aristotle is supposed to understand toddlers' language and to develop/evolve with them. The assistant can talk to toddlers and play music.
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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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Ils programment leurs vies comme on programme un ordinateur
(They are programming their lives the same way we would program a computer)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 25.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | addiction, artificial intelligence, privacy, threat
Summary | IFTTT services target the general public, and the goal of such services is to let digital devices handle people's professional and personal lives. Some people are worried about the potential risks of this "cyber life". For instance, there are privacy issues. Since 2012, there have been around 1,5 million connections between apps and object on IFTTT. As a result, IFTTT collected a lot of personal information (e.g. photos, emails, etc.).
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La famille Zuckerberg compte un nouveau venu : un «majordome virtuel»
(The Zuckerberg family welcomes a new member: a "virtual butler")
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 20.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Jarvis is a new program created by Mark Zuckerberg. It is a personal AI assistant that allows him to turn off/on lights or control his home's temperature, among other features. Jarvis can also recognize faces and let Zuckerberg know when a guest is coming. In the future, Jarvis should be able to learn new words and concepts. Recently, Facebook has been working on artificial intelligence.
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Intelligence artificielle: les géants du Web lancent un partenariat sur l'éthique
(Artificial Intelligence: Web giants launch partnership on ethics)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 1.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, law, research/study, threat
Summary | Artificial intelligence is spreading, which can be worrying. Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Amazon decided to create the "Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society" in order to answer ethical questions, and do more research on the impact of new technologies on society. Another goal of the project is to educate people, listen to them, and be transparent with them. Stephen Hawking thinks that AI could end humanity, and Elon Musk claims that it could be more dangerous than atomic bombs.
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