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Ce que nos applis disent de nous: Yacine, 15 ans, Snapchat dans le sang

(What our apps say about us: Yacine, 15, Snapchat in his blood)

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 28.8.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | addiction, privacy, Snapchat, social media
Summary | Yacine is 15, and he loves Snapchat. The app is very popular; it allows users to send ephemeral videos, photos, and messages. Today, with its "stories" available for 24 hours, Snapchat is a real social network. Yacine claims that he has to visit Snapchat at least once a day, for the flames. He you send a lot of snaps to another user, a flame appears next to that user's name, and the goal is to keep that fame. With Snapchat, everything is playful. Yacine also says that TV is old fashioned. He uses his phone and his iPad to watch videos. He also claims he is not addicted to new technologies, but his mother is more skeptical. Yacine also talks about other social networks and why he prefers Snapchat.
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Le français Snips lève 12 millions d'euros pour faire parler les objets du quotidien

(The French Snips raised 12 million Euros in order to make everyday objects talk)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.9.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy
Summary | The startup Snips developed a new technology that should allow objects to understand voice command without any internet connection, thanks to artificial intelligence. Snips wants to compete with Amazon, Google, Facebook or Microsoft. What Snips proposes is slightly different from what the other giants have. For instance, the French startup wants to offer solutions that are more respectful of people's privacy.
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Et si nous repensions la place que prend le smartphone dans notre quotidien?

(What if we rethink about the role of smartphones in our daily life?)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 5.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | privacy, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | The 16th edition of "Days without smartphones" will be held this weekend. According to Phil Marso, smartphones can be dangerous (e.g. privacy issues, car accidents). Marso wants to show people that smartphones are convenient but that we can live without them.
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Pourquoi les rois du Net rêvent d'intelligence artificielle

(Why the kings of the Internet dream of artificial intelligence)

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Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 16.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain
Summary | Google, Amazon, and Apple have been investing millions of dollars in the field of deep learning. AI used to be a trend in sci-fi movies and books only, but it's now part of our lives. Nowadays, computers do not only do math, they can understand people and respond to them. The way deep learning works is similar to the way ourr brain works.
Image Description | Cartoon representing two chess players: a real man and a "digital" man.
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L'intelligence artificielle a-t-elle cessé d'être bête ?

(Has artificial intelligence stopped from being dumb?)

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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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Mattel lance une intelligence artificielle pour veiller sur les enfants

(Mattel launches an artificial intelligence tool to watch over children)

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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)

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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)

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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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« Google a toujours été une entreprise d'intelligence artificielle »

("Google has always been an artificial intelligence company")

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Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 18.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, Google, threat, translation
Summary | The project Google Brain focuses on machine learning and deep learning. The founder of the project, Greg Corrado, claims that Google has always been an artificial intelligence company. Deep learning has changed the ways in which machines learn. One of the goals of deep learning will be to improve machine translation. Voice recognition works well now, but machine translation is not perfect yet. Regarding ethical questions and safety, Corrado says that we should have an open discussion.
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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)

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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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