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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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«Cummentu», «Mi piace» et «fa mottu» : Facebook parle maintenant le corse
("Cummentu", "Mi piace" et "fa mottu": Facebook now speaks Corsican)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook, translation
Summary | Facebook introduced 20 new languages, and Corsican is one of them. Now, 120000 Corsican speakers can use their language on Facebook. For instance, they can say "cummentu" for "comment", or "cliccu" for "clic". Today, more than one billion people use Facebook in a language other than English, so the question of translation is important. Some people would like Facebook to include other regional languages, such as "occitan", but since occitan is not a standardized language, it would be difficult to do so.
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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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L'algorithme qui comprend les contes pour enfants
(The algorithm that understands children's tales)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 28.2.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, research/study
Summary | One of Facebook's research labs on artificial intelligence created an algorithm capable of understanding and remembering texts. The algorithm is even better than the "tale's text". The essence of intelligence is the capacity to predict, which is also one of the goals of artificial intelligence. Chatbots don't understand the questions that people ask; they actually react to keywords.
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Sur Facebook, la façon de s'exprimer des hommes et des femmes diffère
(On Facebook, men and women express themselves differently)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 2.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | A group of researchers analyzed 68000 Facebook posts to identify language/communication differences between men and women. Men tend to be "colder", to swear more, and to talk more about sports, politics and video games. Women tend to talk more about social relationships and to describe positive emotions.
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Après sa version haoussa, Facebook se lance en peul
(After its Hausa version, Facebook introduces the Fula language )
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | Facebook is now available in Fula. The Fula language is mostly spoken from Mauritania to Sudan, and is the 101st Facebook language. Ibrahima Sarr, who is part of the translators' team, asked if it would be possible to introduce the new language. With the help of the team, they were able to do it. Last summer, Facebook introduced another African language: Hausa.
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Le «nouvel eldorado» des «bots»
(The "new eldorado" of "bots")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 16.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook Messenger's boss claims that consumers will use messaging apps more and more, at the expense of emails, phones, and mobile apps. Other people have also been privileging the conversational mode in the service industry: Kik's boss (Ted Livingston) uses "bots", which are robots that simulate human conversations. For instance, if you're hungry, you can order a pizza using Domino's pizza's bot. A similar trend is happening in China with WeChat. What is interesting about WeChat is the fact that it can give out personal information to product and service suppliers.
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Facebook travaille sur la télépathie entre les ordinateurs et les hommes
(Facebook is working on telepathic communication between computers and human beings)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Facebook
Summary | One of Facebook's labs wants to create a program that would allow people to type words from people's thoughts. The goal of the technology would be to convert brain signals into words. If the lab can do that, people might be able to share their thoughts independently from the language they speak (concepts would be directly translated).
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La «dictée par la pensée» sur laquelle travaille Facebook n'est pas encore pour demain
(The "mind dictation", on which Facebook is working, is not for tomorrow)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 17.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Facebook
Summary | At a Facebook conference on April 19th, it was announced that Facebook is working on a new project that should allow people to type directly from their mind/thoughts. Researchers want to decode language in order to allow people to type their thoughts. The goal would be to type 100 words per minute based on a person's thoughts. Decoding language directly from the brain is difficult. Moreover, Facebook is facing a major difficulty with the sensor technology they want to develop. Finally, besides technical difficulties, there are also ethical ones.
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« Lol » est mort, vive le « haha » !
("Lol" is dead, long lives "haha"!)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 12.8.2015
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | According to Facebook analysts, "lol" is dying out. In their study, they found out that only 1,9% of internet users use "lol" and 51,4% of them use "haha". Laughing emojis are used by 33,7% of internet users. "Lol" seems to be used by 30-year old men whereas emojis are mostly used by females under 20.
Image Description | Photograph of a dictionary page with a big LOL in the middle of the page.
Image Tags | dictionary
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